CVE-2025-38575: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc Use aead_request_free() instead of kfree() to properly free memory allocated by aead_request_alloc(). This ensures sensitive crypto data is zeroed before being freed.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.15, before 5.15.180 (fixed in 5.15.180); from 5.16, before 6.1.134 (fixed in 6.1.134); from 6.2, before 6.6.87 (fixed in 6.6.87); from 6.7, before 6.12.23 (fixed in 6.12.23); from 6.13, before 6.13.11 (fixed in 6.13.11); from 6.14, before 6.14.2 (fixed in 6.14.2)

Published 2025-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.