# CVE-2025-68295: smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs\_construct\_tcon()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.5, 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 5.3
- Published: 2025-12-16 · Updated: 2026-06-16

## Affected

- Linux: from 4.4.194, fixed in 4.5; from 4.9.194, fixed in 4.10; from 4.14.146, fixed in 4.15; from 4.19.75, fixed in 4.20; from 5.2.17, fixed in 5.3
- Linux: 5.3

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon() When having a multiuser mount with domain= specified and using cifscreds, cifs_set_cifscreds() will end up setting @ctx->domainname, so it needs to be freed before leaving cifs_construct_tcon(). This fixes the following memory leak reported by kmemleak: mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o domain=ZELDA,multiuser,... su - testuser cifscreds add -d ZELDA -u testuser ... ls /mnt/1 ... umount /mnt echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffff8881203c3f08 (size 8): comm "ls", pid 5060, jiffies 4307222943 hex dump (first 8 bytes): 5a 45 4c 44 41 00 cc cc ZELDA... backtrace (crc d109a8cf): __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x572/0x710 kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 cifs_sb_tlink+0x1209/0x1770 [cifs] cifs_get_fattr+0xe1/0xf50 [cifs] cifs_get_inode_info+0xb5/0x240 [cifs] cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x2d1/0x470 [cifs] cifs_getattr+0x28e/0x450 [cifs] vfs_getattr_nosec+0x126/0x180 vfs_statx+0xf6/0x220 do_statx+0xab/0x110 __x64_sys_statx+0xd5/0x130 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8f9bd1c46ee02d5558293915d42e82646d5ee9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d146e96fef876492979658dce644305de35878d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dd546e867e94c2f954bca45a961b6104ba708b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f62ffdfb431bdfa4b6d24233b7fd830eca0b801e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15288c137d960836277d0e3ecc62de68e52f00f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67e91d5f446e455dd9201cdd6e865f7078d251d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3184b6a5a24ec9ee74087b2a550476f386df7dc2

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