CVE-2025-40103

Name	CVE-2025-40103
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Fix refcount leak for cifs_sb_tlink Fix three refcount inconsistency issues related to `cifs_sb_tlink`. Comments for `cifs_sb_tlink` state that `cifs_put_tlink()` needs to be called after successful calls to `cifs_sb_tlink()`. Three calls fail to update refcount accordingly, leading to possible resource leaks.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-6053-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.244-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.158-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.57-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.48-1	vulnerable
	forky	6.16.12-2	vulnerable
	sid	6.17.8-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.158-1	DSA-6053-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.57-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.17.6-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/c2b77f42205ef485a647f62082c442c1cd69d3fc (6.18-rc2)