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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-45924" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:43.229Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:43.229Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-45924" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45924.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45924" title: "ksmbd: call ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() on some error paths" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: call ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() on some error paths\n\nThere are two places where ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() needs to be\ncalled in order to balance what the corresponding successful call to\nksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing() has done, i.e. drop inode locks and\nput the taken references. Otherwise there might be potential deadlocks\nand unbalanced locks which are caught like:\n\nBUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic: kworker/5:21/0x00000000/7596\n last function: handle_ksmbd_work\n2 locks held by kworker/5:21/7596:\n #0: ffff8881051ae448 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked+0x142/0x660\n #1: ffff888130e966c0 (&type-\u003ei_mutex_dir_key#3/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked+0x17d/0x660\nCPU: 5 PID: 7596 Comm: kworker/5:21 Not tainted 6.1.162-00456-gc29b353f383b #138\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b\n process_one_work.cold+0x57/0x5c\n worker_thread+0x82/0x600\n kthread+0x153/0x190\n ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9d5012ffe14120f978ee34aef4df3d6cb026b7c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e3a3192ef78d8302916408d62813b1fddfc8972"},{"version":"ac98d54630d5b52e3f684d872f0d82c06c418ea9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f221baa80e5959a0c08a7e34abbf2a4d3cf0e1c2"},{"version":"1e858a7a51c7b8b009d8f246de7ceb7743b44a71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf29329a13df79c198b45dfc92577638d30b56fa"},{"version":"814cfdb6358d9b84fcbec9918c8f938cc096a43a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34d6691933682f0516259a31b39d2cebcedec0a5"},{"version":"d5fc1400a34b4ea5e8f2ce296ea12bf8c8421694","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c578e8065c4b08d5635a4cbc0f6321df9d20f79"},{"version":"d5fc1400a34b4ea5e8f2ce296ea12bf8c8421694","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c38600feb81c670edb82e49d201d3d2d00cd4c3"},{"version":"d5fc1400a34b4ea5e8f2ce296ea12bf8c8421694","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a09dc10d1353f0e92c21eae2a79af1c2b1ddcde8"},{"version":"a7dddd62578c2eb6cb28b8835556a121b5157323","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a726fef6d7d4cfc365d3434e3916dbfe78991a33","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.203"},{"version":"6.1.149","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.167"},{"version":"6.6.103","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.130"},{"version":"6.12.43","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.78"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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