CVE-2025-21844 (GCVE-0-2025-21844)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-12 09:42
Modified
2026-05-23 15:57
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard() Add check for the return value of cifs_buf_get() and cifs_small_buf_get() in receive_encrypted_standard() to prevent null pointer dereference.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: b03c8099a738a04d2343547ae6a04e5f0f63d3fa
Version: 858e73ff25639a0cc1f6f8d2587b62c045867e41
Version: 9f528a8e68327117837b5e28b096f52af4c26a05
Version: 534733397da26de0303057ce0b93a22bda150365
Version: eec04ea119691e65227a97ce53c0da6b9b74b0b7
Version: eec04ea119691e65227a97ce53c0da6b9b74b0b7
Version: eec04ea119691e65227a97ce53c0da6b9b74b0b7
Version: 5.10.211   ≤
Version: 5.15.150   ≤
Version: 6.1.69   ≤
Version: 6.6.8   ≤
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