{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-37802", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:23.941Z", "datePublished": "2025-05-08T06:26:03.075Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:57:41.405Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:57:41.405Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix WARNING \"do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING\"\n\nwait_event_timeout() will set the state of the current\ntask to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, before doing the condition check. This\nmeans that ksmbd_durable_scavenger_alive() will try to acquire the mutex\nwhile already in a sleeping state. The scheduler warns us by giving\nthe following warning:\n\ndo not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=2 set at\n [<0000000061515a6f>] prepare_to_wait_event+0x9f/0x6c0\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4147 at kernel/sched/core.c:10099 __might_sleep+0x12f/0x160\n\nmutex lock is not needed in ksmbd_durable_scavenger_alive()." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The vulnerable code is in ksmbd, the in-kernel SMB server listening on TCP/445, and the trigger is SMB2 SESSION_SETUP / connection teardown traffic from a remote peer. No local access is needed.\nAC:L - The scavenger kthread hits the bad `mutex_lock()`-under-TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE on its very first wait, deterministically, whenever a session is destroyed while a durable handle exists; the attacker also controls both sides of the lock contention by churning sessions across parallel connections.\nPR:N - `ksmbd_session_destroy()` — which launches the scavenger — is reached before authentication, via `ksmbd_session_register()`→`ksmbd_expire_session()` reaping a non-VALID (unauthenticated) session and via `ksmbd_sessions_deregister()` on connection close; on guest-mapped shares the attacker can also populate the durable-handle table with no credentials.\nUI:N - Exploitation requires only that the attacker open SMB connections and issue SESSION_SETUP requests; no action by a local user or administrator is needed.\nS:U - The corrupted task state and the resulting warning/spin are confined to the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:N - There is no out-of-bounds read or use-after-free; the WARN backtrace goes to the kernel log, which is not accessible to the remote attacker.\nI:N - No memory corruption or data modification occurs — the only state damaged is the scavenger kthread's own scheduler state, which does not yield a write primitive.\nA:H - The bug produces a kernel WARNING splat that becomes a full panic under `panic_on_warn`, and the clobbered task state turns the scavenger into a busy loop repeatedly holding `write_lock(&global_ft.lock)`, exhausting a CPU and stalling all SMB file open/close processing." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "8f805b3746d2f41702c77cba22f94f8415fadd1a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "cd161198e091e8a62b9bd631be970ea9a87d2d6a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf", "lessThan": "1df0d4c616138784e033ad337961b6e1a6bcd999", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.15", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.15", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.26", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.14.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.14.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.15", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.26" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.14.5" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.15" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f805b3746d2f41702c77cba22f94f8415fadd1a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd161198e091e8a62b9bd631be970ea9a87d2d6a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1df0d4c616138784e033ad337961b6e1a6bcd999" } ], "title": "ksmbd: fix WARNING \"do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING\"", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }