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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40039"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:19.781Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:07:13.052Z"
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-2025-40039"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40039.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40039"
title: "ksmbd: Fix race condition in RPC handle list access"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: Fix race condition in RPC handle list access\n\nThe 'sess-\u003erpc_handle_list' XArray manages RPC handles within a ksmbd\nsession. Access to this list is intended to be protected by\n'sess-\u003erpc_lock' (an rw_semaphore). However, the locking implementation was\nflawed, leading to potential race conditions.\n\nIn ksmbd_session_rpc_open(), the code incorrectly acquired only a read lock\nbefore calling xa_store() and xa_erase(). Since these operations modify\nthe XArray structure, a write lock is required to ensure exclusive access\nand prevent data corruption from concurrent modifications.\n\nFurthermore, ksmbd_session_rpc_method() accessed the list using xa_load()\nwithout holding any lock at all. This could lead to reading inconsistent\ndata or a potential use-after-free if an entry is concurrently removed and\nthe pointer is dereferenced.\n\nFix these issues by:\n1. Using down_write() and up_write() in ksmbd_session_rpc_open()\n   to ensure exclusive access during XArray modification, and ensuring\n   the lock is correctly released on error paths.\n2. Adding down_read() and up_read() in ksmbd_session_rpc_method()\n   to safely protect the lookup."
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