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Red Hat: CVE-2025-37954: kernel: smb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 20, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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