CVE-2025-38501 (GCVE-0-2025-38501)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-16 05:30
Modified
2025-08-16 05:30
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP
Repeated connections from clients with the same IP address may exhaust
the max connections and prevent other normal client connections.
This patch limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ► | Linux | Linux |
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
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