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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37954"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T16:01:48.561Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:05.057Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-37954"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37954.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37954"
title: "smb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks\n\nA pre-existing valid cfid returned from find_or_create_cached_dir might\nrace with a lease break, meaning open_cached_dir doesn't consider it\nvalid, and thinks it's newly-constructed. This leaks a dentry reference\nif the allocation occurs before the queued lease break work runs.\n\nAvoid the race by extending holding the cfid_list_lock across\nfind_or_create_cached_dir and when the result is checked."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"81ba10959970d15c388bf29866b01b62f387e6a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ed98e89ebc2e1bc73534dc3c18cb7843a889ff9"},{"version":"81ba10959970d15c388bf29866b01b62f387e6a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"571dcf3d27b24800c171aea7b5e04ff06d10e2e9"},{"version":"81ba10959970d15c388bf29866b01b62f387e6a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2407265dc32bc8cc45b62a612c2a214ba9038e8b"},{"version":"81ba10959970d15c388bf29866b01b62f387e6a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ca02e63edccb78ef3659bebc68579c7224a6ca2"},{"version":"436be190fbf81e5d84040dabf9cb7be06a94dc5d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.5.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.29","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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