cve-2023-32255
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-02 22:25
Modified
2025-08-04 13:21
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Kernel: memory leak via ksmbd session setup request with unknown ntlmssp message type
References
Impacted products
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