CVE-2025-37954 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-37954

smb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks A pre-existing valid cfid returned from find_or_create_cached_dir might race with a lease break, meaning open_cached_dir doesn't consider it valid, and thinks it's newly-constructed. This leaks a dentry reference if the allocation occurs before the queued lease break work runs. Avoid the race by extending holding the cfid_list_lock across find_or_create_cached_dir and when the result is checked.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
81ba10959970d15c388bf29866b01b62f387e6a3, 436be190fbf81e5d84040dabf9cb7be06a94dc5d, 6.5.10, 6.6, 0, 6.6.91, 6.12.29, 6.14.7, 6.15

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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