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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38527" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-16T11:12:20.843Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:18.718Z" 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-2025-38527" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38527.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38527" title: "smb: client: fix use-after-free in cifs_oplock_break" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix use-after-free in cifs_oplock_break\n\nA race condition can occur in cifs_oplock_break() leading to a\nuse-after-free of the cinode structure when unmounting:\n\n cifs_oplock_break()\n _cifsFileInfo_put(cfile)\n cifsFileInfo_put_final()\n cifs_sb_deactive()\n [last ref, start releasing sb]\n kill_sb()\n kill_anon_super()\n generic_shutdown_super()\n evict_inodes()\n dispose_list()\n evict()\n destroy_inode()\n call_rcu(&inode-\u003ei_rcu, i_callback)\n spin_lock(&cinode-\u003eopen_file_lock) \u003c- OK\n [later] i_callback()\n cifs_free_inode()\n kmem_cache_free(cinode)\n spin_unlock(&cinode-\u003eopen_file_lock) \u003c- UAF\n cifs_done_oplock_break(cinode) \u003c- UAF\n\nThe issue occurs when umount has already released its reference to the\nsuperblock. When _cifsFileInfo_put() calls cifs_sb_deactive(), this\nreleases the last reference, triggering the immediate cleanup of all\ninodes under RCU. However, cifs_oplock_break() continues to access the\ncinode after this point, resulting in use-after-free.\n\nFix this by holding an extra reference to the superblock during the\nentire oplock break operation. This ensures that the superblock and\nits inodes remain valid until the oplock break completes." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b98749cac4a695f084a5ff076f4510b23e353ecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4256a483fe58af66a46cbf3dc48ff26e580d3308"},{"version":"b98749cac4a695f084a5ff076f4510b23e353ecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a4eec84d4d2c4085d4ed8630fd74e4b39033c1b"},{"version":"b98749cac4a695f084a5ff076f4510b23e353ecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2baaf5bbab2ac474c4f92c10fcb3310f824db995"},{"version":"b98749cac4a695f084a5ff076f4510b23e353ecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"09bce2138a30ef10d8821c8c3f73a4ab7a5726bc"},{"version":"b98749cac4a695f084a5ff076f4510b23e353ecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da11bd4b697b393a207f19a2ed7d382a811a3ddc"},{"version":"b98749cac4a695f084a5ff076f4510b23e353ecd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"705c79101ccf9edea5a00d761491a03ced314210"},{"version":"2429fcf06d3cb962693868ab0a927c9038f12a2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1ee4f2d7cdcd4508cc3cbe3b2622d7177b89da12","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"53fc31a4853e30d6e8f142b824f724da27ff3e40","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8092ecc306d81186a64cda42411121f4d35aaff4","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ebac4d0adf68f8962bd82fcf483936edd6ec095b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.72","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.9.171","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.114","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.37","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.0.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.147","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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