CVE-2025-38321 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38321

smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails Under low-memory conditions, close_all_cached_dirs() can't move the dentries to a separate list to dput() them once the locks are dropped. This will result in a "Dentry still in use" error, so add an error message that makes it clear this is what happened: [ 495.281119] CIFS: VFS: \\otters.example.com\share Out of memory while dropping dentries [ 495.281595] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 495.281887] BUG: Dentry ffff888115531138{i=78,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs] [ 495.282391] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2329 at fs/dcache.c:1536 umount_check+0xc8/0xf0 Also, bail out of looping through all tcons as soon as a single allocation fails, since we're already in trouble, and kmalloc() attempts for subseqeuent tcons are likely to fail just like the first one did.

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:
73934e535cffbda1490fa97d82690a0f9aa73e94, 548812afd96982a76a93ba76c0582ea670c40d9e, 3fa640d035e5ae526769615c35cb9ed4be6e3662, ff4528bbc82d0d90073751f7b49e7b9e9c7e5638, 6.6.64, 6.12.2, 6.11.11, 6.13, 0, 6.6.95, 6.12.35, 6.15.4, 6.16

Timeline

Official Publish: July 10th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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