Security Advisory

CVE-2025-37954

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-05-20 16:01:48
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:58:38
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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 doesnt consider it valid, and thinks its 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.