CVE-2025-37954: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6.91 (fixed in 6.6.91); from 6.7, before 6.12.29 (fixed in 6.12.29); from 6.13, before 6.14.7 (fixed in 6.14.7); version 6.15 only

Published 2025-05-20. Last modified 2026-07-30.