Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-38523

Linux Linux

cifs: Fix the smbd_response slab to allow usercopy

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix the smbd_response slab to allow usercopy The handling of received data in the smbdirect client code involves using copy_to_iter() to copy data from the smbd_reponse struct's packet trailer to a folioq buffer provided by netfslib that encapsulates a chunk of pagecache. If, however, CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y, this will result in the checks then performed in copy_to_iter() oopsing with something like the following: CIFS: Attempting to mount //172.31.9.1/test CIFS: VFS: RDMA transport established usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'smbd_response_0000000091e24ea1' (offset 81, size 63)! ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102! ... RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80 ... Call Trace: <TASK> __check_heap_object+0xe3/0x120 __check_object_size+0x4dc/0x6d0 smbd_recv+0x77f/0xfe0 [cifs] cifs_readv_from_socket+0x276/0x8f0 [cifs] cifs_read_from_socket+0xcd/0x120 [cifs] cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x7e9/0x2d50 [cifs] kthread+0x396/0x830 ret_from_fork+0x2b8/0x3b0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 The problem is that the smbd_response slab's packet field isn't marked as being permitted for usercopy. Fix this by passing parameters to kmem_slab_create() to indicate that copy_to_iter() is permitted from the packet region of the smbd_response slab objects, less the header space.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.12 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e ≤ v < 87dcc7e33fc3dcb8ed32333cec016528b5bb6ce4 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e ≤ v < f0dd353d47f7051afa98c6c60c7486831eb1a410 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e ≤ v < 43e7e284fc77b710d899569360ea46fa3374ae22 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-08-16
Last updated
2026-08-05
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.38%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
33.2%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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