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CVE-2025-22077— Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod"

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Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于smb客户端netns引用计数不平衡，可能导致内存泄漏和释放后重用。

CVSS 9.8 · Critical EPSS 0.38% · P31

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

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Affected Version Matrix 12

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 906807c734ed219dcb2e7bbfde5c4168ed72a3d0< 8dbf060480236877703bff0106fc984576184d11 affected
127e907e11ccd54b59bb78fc22c43ccb76c71079< f761eeefd531e6550cd3a5c047835b4892acb00d affected
e9f2517a3e18a54a3943c098d2226b245d488801< 4b6f6bf1bde8d6045c389fda8d21c304dfe49384 affected
e9f2517a3e18a54a3943c098d2226b245d488801< 95d2b9f693ff2a1180a23d7d59acc0c4e72f4c41 affected
6.6.68< 6.6.88 affected
6.12.7< 6.12.25 affected
6.13 affected
< 6.13 unaffected
… +4 more rows
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2025-22077

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Vulnerability Title
Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod"
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod" This reverts commit e9f2517a3e18a54a3943c098d2226b245d488801. Commit e9f2517a3e18 ("smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod") is intended to fix a null-ptr-deref in LOCKDEP, which is mentioned as CVE-2024-54680, but is actually did not fix anything; The issue can be reproduced on top of it. [0] Also, it reverted the change by commit ef7134c7fc48 ("smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace.") and introduced a real issue by reviving the kernel TCP socket. When a reconnect happens for a CIFS connection, the socket state transitions to FIN_WAIT_1. Then, inet_csk_clear_xmit_timers_sync() in tcp_close() stops all timers for the socket. If an incoming FIN packet is lost, the socket will stay at FIN_WAIT_1 forever, and such sockets could be leaked up to net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans. Usually, FIN can be retransmitted by the peer, but if the peer aborts the connection, the issue comes into reality. I warned about this privately by pointing out the exact report [1], but the bogus fix was finally merged. So, we should not stop the timers to finally kill the connection on our side in that case, meaning we must not use a kernel socket for TCP whose sk->sk_net_refcnt is 0. The kernel socket does not have a reference to its netns to make it possible to tear down netns without cleaning up every resource in it. For example, tunnel devices use a UDP socket internally, but we can destroy netns without removing such devices and let it complete during exit. Otherwise, netns would be leaked when the last application died. However, this is problematic for TCP sockets because TCP has timers to close the connection gracefully even after the socket is close()d. The lifetime of the socket and its netns is different from the lifetime of the underlying connection. If the socket user does not maintain the netns lifetime, the timer could be fired after the socket is close()d and its netns is freed up, resulting in use-after-free. Actually, we have seen so many similar issues and converted such sockets to have a reference to netns. That's why I converted the CIFS client socket to have a reference to netns (sk->sk_net_refcnt == 1), which is somehow mentioned as out-of-scope of CIFS and technically wrong in e9f2517a3e18, but **is in-scope and right fix**. Regarding the LOCKDEP issue, we can prevent the module unload by bumping the module refcount when switching the LOCKDDEP key in sock_lock_init_class_and_name(). [2] For a while, let's revert the bogus fix. Note that now we can use sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() for the socket conversion, but I'll do so later separately to make backport easy.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于smb客户端netns引用计数不平衡，可能导致内存泄漏和释放后重用。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux 906807c734ed219dcb2e7bbfde5c4168ed72a3d0 ~ 8dbf060480236877703bff0106fc984576184d11 -
Linux Linux 6.13 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2025-22077 (5)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-04-16 · 127 CVEs total

CVE-2025-22021 10.0 CRITICAL netfilter: socket: Lookup orig tuple for IPv6 SNAT
CVE-2025-22088 9.8 CRITICAL RDMA/erdma: Prevent use-after-free in erdma_accept_newconn()
CVE-2025-22110 9.8 CRITICAL netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: Initialize ctx to avoid memory allocation error
CVE-2025-22039 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix overflow in dacloffset bounds check
CVE-2025-22086 8.8 HIGH RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_poll_one() cur_qp update flow
CVE-2025-23133 8.8 HIGH wifi: ath11k: update channel list in reg notifier instead reg worker
CVE-2024-58096 8.8 HIGH wifi: ath11k: add srng->lock for ath11k_hal_srng_* in monitor mode
CVE-2025-22041 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_sessions_deregister()
CVE-2025-22040 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix session use-after-free in multichannel connection
CVE-2025-22074 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix r_count dec/increment mismatch
CVE-2025-22118 8.8 HIGH ice: validate queue quanta parameters to prevent OOB access
CVE-2025-22117 8.7 HIGH ice: fix using untrusted value of pkt_len in ice_vc_fdir_parse_raw()
CVE-2025-22108 8.6 HIGH bnxt_en: Mask the bd_cnt field in the TX BD properly
CVE-2025-22121 8.4 HIGH ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()
CVE-2025-22080 8.4 HIGH fs/ntfs3: Prevent integer overflow in hdr_first_de()
CVE-2025-22038 8.3 HIGH ksmbd: validate zero num_subauth before sub_auth is accessed
CVE-2025-22043 8.1 HIGH ksmbd: add bounds check for durable handle context
CVE-2025-22042 8.1 HIGH ksmbd: add bounds check for create lease context
CVE-2025-22085 7.8 HIGH RDMA/core: Fix use-after-free when rename device name
CVE-2025-22045 7.8 HIGH x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs

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