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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-53178" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-12-27T13:49:22.085Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:44:25.194Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53178" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53178.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53178" title: "smb: Don't leak cfid when reconnect races with open_cached_dir" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: Don't leak cfid when reconnect races with open_cached_dir\n\nopen_cached_dir() may either race with the tcon reconnection even before\ncompound_send_recv() or directly trigger a reconnection via\nSMB2_open_init() or SMB_query_info_init().\n\nThe reconnection process invokes invalidate_all_cached_dirs() via\ncifs_mark_open_files_invalid(), which removes all cfids from the\ncfids-\u003eentries list but doesn't drop a ref if has_lease isn't true. This\nresults in the currently-being-constructed cfid not being on the list,\nbut still having a refcount of 2. It leaks if returned from\nopen_cached_dir().\n\nFix this by setting cfid-\u003ehas_lease when the ref is actually taken; the\ncfid will not be used by other threads until it has a valid time.\n\nAddresses these kmemleaks:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881090c4000 (size 1024):\n comm \"bash\", pid 1860, jiffies 4295126592\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de ........\".......\n 00 ca 45 22 81 88 ff ff f8 dc 4f 04 81 88 ff ff ..E\"......O.....\n backtrace (crc 6f58c20f):\n [\u003cffffffff8b895a1e\u003e] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2be/0x350\n [\u003cffffffff8bda06e3\u003e] open_cached_dir+0x993/0x1fb0\n [\u003cffffffff8bdaa750\u003e] cifs_readdir+0x15a0/0x1d50\n [\u003cffffffff8b9a853f\u003e] iterate_dir+0x28f/0x4b0\n [\u003cffffffff8b9a9aed\u003e] __x64_sys_getdents64+0xfd/0x200\n [\u003cffffffff8cf6da05\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x95/0x1a0\n [\u003cffffffff8d00012f\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881044fdcf8 (size 8):\n comm \"bash\", pid 1860, jiffies 4295126592\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ........\n backtrace (crc 10c106a9):\n [\u003cffffffff8b89a3d3\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x363/0x480\n [\u003cffffffff8b7d7256\u003e] kstrdup+0x36/0x60\n [\u003cffffffff8bda0700\u003e] open_cached_dir+0x9b0/0x1fb0\n [\u003cffffffff8bdaa750\u003e] cifs_readdir+0x15a0/0x1d50\n [\u003cffffffff8b9a853f\u003e] iterate_dir+0x28f/0x4b0\n [\u003cffffffff8b9a9aed\u003e] __x64_sys_getdents64+0xfd/0x200\n [\u003cffffffff8cf6da05\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x95/0x1a0\n [\u003cffffffff8d00012f\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nAnd addresses these BUG splats when unmounting the SMB filesystem:\n\nBUG: Dentry ffff888140590ba0{i=1000000000080,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs]\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 3433 at fs/dcache.c:1536 umount_check+0xd0/0x100\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 3433 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-g850925a8133c-dirty #49\nHardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020\nRIP: 0010:umount_check+0xd0/0x100\nCode: 8d 7c 24 40 e8 31 5a f4 ff 49 8b 54 24 40 41 56 49 89 e9 45 89 e8 48 89 d9 41 57 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 80 e7 db ac e8 f0 72 9a ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b 58 31 c0 5a 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 2b e5 5d 01 41\nRSP: 0018:ffff88811cc27978 EFLAGS: 00010286\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888140590ba0 RCX: ffffffffaaf20bae\nRDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff8881f6fb6f40\nRBP: ffff8881462ec000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1023984ee3\nR10: ffff88811cc2771f R11: 00000000016cfcc0 R12: ffff888134383e08\nR13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff8881462ec668 R15: ffffffffaceab4c0\nFS: 00007f23bfa98740(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000556de4a6f808 CR3: 0000000123c80000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n d_walk+0x6a/0x530\n shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x6a/0x200\n generic_shutdown_super+0x52/0x2a0\n kill_anon_super+0x22/0x40\n cifs_kill_sb+0x159/0x1e0\n deactivate_locked_super+0x66/0xe0\n cleanup_mnt+0x140/0x210\n task_work_run+0xfb/0x170\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x29f/0x2b0\n do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nRIP: 0033:0x7f23bfb93ae7\nCode: ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 0d 11 93 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 b8 ff ff ff ff eb bf 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 50 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d e9 92 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ebe98f1447bbccf8228335c62d86af02a0ed23f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31fabf70d58388d5475e48ca8a6b7d2847b36678"},{"version":"ebe98f1447bbccf8228335c62d86af02a0ed23f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d76332d783db12684b67592f1fb2057b88af4c3"},{"version":"ebe98f1447bbccf8228335c62d86af02a0ed23f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73a57b25b4df23f22814fc06b7e8f9cf570be026"},{"version":"ebe98f1447bbccf8228335c62d86af02a0ed23f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7afb86733685c64c604d32faf00fa4a1f22c2ab1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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