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Unscored CVE-2025-40052 EUVD-2025-36476GHSA-76hq-frpj-75r7

smb: client: fix crypto buffers in non-linear memory

Published Oct 28, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: kernel Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.14 Package: linux-aws-6.17 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.14 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.14 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.8 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-azure-nvidia Package: linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.14 Package: linux-gcp-6.17 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-6.8 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.14 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-6.8 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.11 Package: linux-nvidia-6.17 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia-lowlatency Package: linux-nvidia-tegra Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.14 Package: linux-oem-6.17 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.14 Package: linux-oracle-6.17 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-realtime-6.14 Package: linux-realtime-6.17 Package: linux-realtime-6.8 Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.14 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-riscv-6.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Azure Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

smb: client: fix crypto buffers in non-linear memory

The crypto API, through the scatterlist API, expects input buffers to be
in linear memory. We handle this with the cifs_sg_set_buf() helper
that converts vmalloc'd memory to their corresponding pages.

However, when we allocate our aead_request buffer (@creq in
smb2ops.c::crypt_message()), we do so with kvzalloc(), which possibly
puts aead_request->__ctx in vmalloc area.

AEAD algorithm then uses ->__ctx for its private/internal data and
operations, and uses sg_set_buf() for such data on a few places.

This works fine as long as @creq falls into kmalloc zone (small
requests) or vmalloc'd memory is still within linear range.

Tasks' stacks are vmalloc'd by default (CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y), so too
many tasks will increment the base stacks' addresses to a point where
virt_addr_valid(buf) will fail (BUG() in sg_set_buf()) when that
happens.

In practice: too many parallel reads and writes on an encrypted mount
will trigger this bug.

To fix this, always alloc @creq with kmalloc() instead.
Also drop the @sensitive_size variable/arguments since
kfree_sensitive() doesn't need it.

Backtrace:

[ 945.272081] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 945.272774] kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:209!
[ 945.273520] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI
[ 945.274412] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 56 Comm: kworker/u33:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.15.0-lku-11779-g8e9d6efccdd7-dirty #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 945.275736] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-2-gc13ff2cd-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 945.276877] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-cifs-2)
[ 945.277457] RIP: 0010:crypto_gcm_init_common+0x1f9/0x220
[ 945.278018] Code: b0 00 00 00 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 48 c7 c0 00 00 00 80 48 2b 05 5c 58 e5 00 e9 58 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 48 c7 04 24 01 00 00 00 48 8b
[ 945.279992] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a27360 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 945.280578] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90001d85060 RCX: 0000000000000030
[ 945.281376] RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90081d85070
[ 945.282145] RBP: ffffc90001d85010 R08: ffffc90001d85000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 945.282898] R10: ffffc90001d85090 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffffc90001d85070
[ 945.283656] R13: ffff888113522948 R14: ffffc90001d85060 R15: ffffc90001d85010
[ 945.284407] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8882e66cf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 945.285262] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 945.285884] CR2: 00007fa7ffdd31f4 CR3: 000000010540d000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
[ 945.286683] Call Trace:
[ 945.286952] <TASK>
[ 945.287184] ? crypt_message+0x33f/0xad0 [cifs]
[ 945.287719] crypto_gcm_encrypt+0x36/0xe0
[ 945.288152] crypt_message+0x54a/0xad0 [cifs]
[ 945.288724] smb3_init_transform_rq+0x277/0x300 [cifs]
[ 945.289300] smb_send_rqst+0xa3/0x160 [cifs]
[ 945.289944] cifs_call_async+0x178/0x340 [cifs]
[ 945.290514] ? __pfx_smb2_writev_callback+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
[ 945.291177] smb2_async_writev+0x3e3/0x670 [cifs]
[ 945.291759] ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
[ 945.292212] ? netfs_advance_write+0xf2/0x310
[ 945.292723] netfs_advance_write+0xf2/0x310
[ 945.293210] netfs_write_folio+0x346/0xcc0
[ 945.293689] ? __pfx__raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x10/0x10
[ 945.294250] netfs_writepages+0x117/0x460
[ 945.294724] do_writepages+0xbe/0x170
[ 945.295152] ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
[ 945.295600] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x11/0x20
[ 945.296103] __writeback_single_inode+0x56/0x4b0
[ 945.296643] writeback_sb_inodes+0x229/0x550
[ 945.297140] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x4c/0xe0
[ 945.297642] wb_writeback+0x2f1/0x3f0
[ 945.298069] wb_workfn+0x300/0x490
[ 945.298472] process_one_work+0x1fe/0x590
[ 945.298949] worker_thread+0x1ce/0x3c0
[ 945.299397] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 945.299900] kthr
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.3 6.6.112

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.17.6-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.57-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1017.21 —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux 6.17.0-14.14 USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-aws +2 6.17.0-1007.7 USN-8030-1, USN-8029-2
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure +1 6.17.0-1008.8 USN-8029-3, USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-realtime 6.17.0-1006.7 USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-riscv 6.17.0-14.14.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-106.106 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1050.53 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-6.17 +1 6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1051.57 USN-8125-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1058.65 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1039.42 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1052.55 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1048.53 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1035.38 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1049.49 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-106.106.1 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1049.52 USN-8100-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1049.52.1 USN-8100-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1020.20 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.17 6.17.0-1011.11 USN-8048-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1047.48 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1050.54 USN-8095-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +18 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1028.29 USN-8261-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1050.53~22.04.1 USN-8095-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1 USN-8126-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1058.65~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 +1 6.8.0-106.106~22.04.1 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1049.49~22.04.1 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-106.106.1~22.04.1 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1049.52~22.04.1 USN-8100-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1047.48~22.04.1 USN-8095-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2040.41 USN-8095-5
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1045.46 USN-8095-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.17 6.17.0-1006.7~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1045.46~22.04.1 USN-8095-3
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1050.53+fips1 USN-8095-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1052.58+fips1 USN-8165-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-106.106+fips1 USN-8095-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1052.55+fips1 USN-8095-2
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1.150700.17.15.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4128-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1.150600.12.34.2 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
Show 9 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.7.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21147-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21147-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.7.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21180-1, SUSE-SU-2025:21147-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21147-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21080-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.7.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20561-1, SUSE-SU-2025:21080-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-36.1.21.13 SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-38.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21064-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-36.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-36.1.21.13 SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-38.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-36.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_6 1-150700.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_6 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_17 1-150600.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_17 1-150600.13.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 6.17.7-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15702-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source-longterm 6.18.16-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 openSUSE-SU-2025:20091-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +10 6.12.0-160000.7.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:20091-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +10 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4128-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1.150600.12.34.2 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.53-69.119 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1254
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +14 1:6.12.53-69.119.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1254

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.112.1-2 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-106.55.4.1.el10uek ELSA-2025-28040

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