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CVE-2025-38208 (GCVE-0-2025-38208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:59
VLAI
Title
smb: client: add NULL check in automount_fullpath
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: add NULL check in automount_fullpath page is checked for null in __build_path_from_dentry_optional_prefix when tcon->origin_fullpath is not set. However, the check is missing when it is set. Add a check to prevent a potential NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d5a863a153e90996ab2aef6b9e08d509f4d5662b , < 37166d63e42c34846a16001950ecec96229a8d17 (git)
Affected: d5a863a153e90996ab2aef6b9e08d509f4d5662b , < a9e916fa5c7d0ec2256aa44aa24ddd92f529ce35 (git)
Affected: d5a863a153e90996ab2aef6b9e08d509f4d5662b , < cce8e71ca1f7ad9045707f0d22490c1e9ed1df6c (git)
Affected: d5a863a153e90996ab2aef6b9e08d509f4d5662b , < f1e7a277a1736e12cc4bd6d93b8a5c439b8ca20c (git)
Affected: e91802036b3e6e6e803a17ddf5783a6354fe5380 (git)
Affected: 6.2.13 , < 6.3 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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