CVE-2025-68817

Updated on 13 Jan 2026

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_tree_connect_put under concurrency

Under high concurrency, A tree-connection object (tcon) is freed on a disconnect path while another path still holds a reference and later executes *_put()/write on it.

Details

Affected product:
Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned