CVE-2025-39819

CVE-2025-39819

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/smb: Fix inconsistent refcnt update

A possible inconsistent update of refcount was identified in `smb2_compound_op`.

Such inconsistent update could lead to possible resource leaks.

Why it is a possible bug:

1. In the comment section of the function, it clearly states that the

reference to `cfile` should be dropped after calling this function.

2. Every control flow path would check and drop the reference to

`cfile`, except the patched one.

3. Existing callers would not handle refcount update of `cfile` if

-ENOMEM is returned.

To fix the bug, an extra goto label "out" is added, to make sure that the

cleanup logic would always be respected. As the problem is caused by the

allocation failure of `vars`, the cleanup logic between label "finished"

and "out" can be safely ignored. According to the definition of function

`is_replayable_error`, the error code of "-ENOMEM" is not recoverable.

Therefore, the replay logic also gets ignored.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00150 · 3.8th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T17:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.8, < 6.1.1506.1.150
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1046.6.104
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.456.12.45
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.16.56.16.5
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 13:00Z
    fs/smb: Fix inconsistent refcnt update
    cvelistv5