In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix server re-repick on subrequest retry When a subrequest is marked for needing retry, netfs will call cifs_prepare_write() which will make cifs repick the server for the op before renegotiating credits; it then calls cifs_issue_write() which invokes smb2_async_writev() - which re-repicks the server. If a different server is then selected, this causes the increment of server->in_flight to happen against one record and the decrement to happen against another, leading to misaccounting. Fix this by just removing the repick code in smb2_async_writev(). As this is only called from netfslib-driven code, cifs_prepare_write() should always have been called first, and so server should never be NULL and the preparatory step is repeated in the event that we do a retry. The problem manifests as a warning looking something like: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 72896 at fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c:97 smb2_add_credits+0x3f0/0x9e0 [cifs] ... RIP: 0010:smb2_add_credits+0x3f0/0x9e0 [cifs] ... smb2_writev_callback+0x334/0x560 [cifs] cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x77a/0x11b0 [cifs] kthread+0x187/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 Which may be triggered by a number of different xfstests running against an Azure server in multichannel mode. generic/249 seems the most repeatable, but generic/215, generic/249 and generic/308 may also show it.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-42256 is rated Moderate Risk (57.1/100): CVSS Critical severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.73%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.09% | 0.73% | +0.64% |
| 2 | 2025-11-21 | 0.39% | 0.09% | -0.29% |
| 3 | 2025-11-18 | — | 0.39% | — |
Full EPSS history (10 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 3.1 | CRITICAL |
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3.9 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2024-42256 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42256 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42256 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2024-42256 severity moderate: SUSE including 24 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 209 product×package rows across 41 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS, … (41 product lines)): Known Not Affected 209. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42256/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2024-42256 medium priority: Ubuntu including 121 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 551 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 256, ignored 138, not-affected 102, released 55. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42256 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.10, < 6.10.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |