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CVE-2025-38737
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-09-05T18:15:43.090 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:17:46.200

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix oops due to uninitialised variable Fix smb3_init_transform_rq() to initialise buffer to NULL before calling netfs_alloc_folioq_buffer() as netfs assumes it can append to the buffer it is given. Setting it to NULL means it should start a fresh buffer, but the value is currently undefined.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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