ksmbd vulnerability

Microsoft’s MSRC entry naming Azure Linux as a product that “includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is an authoritative, product‑level attestation — but it is not a categorical guarantee that no other Microsoft artifact or product can include the same vulnerable...

Microsoft’s concise MSRC line — “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate for the product Microsoft has inspected, but it should not be read as a categorical statement that only Azure Linux could include the vulnerable ksmbd code. The...

Microsoft’s brief, machine‑readable advisory that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is accurate — but it is a product‑scoped attestation, not a blanket guarantee that no other Microsoft product could carry the same vulnerable ksmbd code...

A recently disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability in the ksmbd subsystem — tracked as CVE-2025-40039 — fixes a subtle but consequential race condition in the kernel SMB server’s RPC handle list that could lead to inconsistent state, data corruption, or use‑after‑free when RPC handles are accessed...