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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-53179"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T13:49:22.982Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:44:26.259Z"
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-2024-53179"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53179.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53179"
title: "smb: client: fix use-after-free of signing key"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix use-after-free of signing key\n\nCustomers have reported use-after-free in @ses-\u003eauth_key.response with\nSMB2.1 + sign mounts which occurs due to following race:\n\ntask A                         task B\ncifs_mount()\n dfs_mount_share()\n  get_session()\n   cifs_mount_get_session()    cifs_send_recv()\n    cifs_get_smb_ses()          compound_send_recv()\n     cifs_setup_session()        smb2_setup_request()\n      kfree_sensitive()           smb2_calc_signature()\n                                   crypto_shash_setkey() *UAF*\n\nFix this by ensuring that we have a valid @ses-\u003eauth_key.response by\nchecking whether @ses-\u003eses_status is SES_GOOD or SES_EXITING with\n@ses-\u003eses_lock held.  After commit 24a9799aa8ef (\"smb: client: fix UAF\nin smb2_reconnect_server()\"), we made sure to call -\u003elogoff() only\nwhen @ses was known to be good (e.g. valid -\u003eauth_key.response), so\nit's safe to access signing key when @ses-\u003eses_status == SES_EXITING."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"32811d242ff6f28da2ab18c90a15e32fd958e774","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39619c65ab4bbb3e78c818f537687653e112764d"},{"version":"32811d242ff6f28da2ab18c90a15e32fd958e774","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e2b654a3848bf9da3b0d54c1ccf3f1b8c635591"},{"version":"32811d242ff6f28da2ab18c90a15e32fd958e774","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"343d7fe6df9e247671440a932b6a73af4fa86d95"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"6.6.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"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"}]

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