CVE-2025-38208 (GCVE-0-2025-38208)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 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) |
guessed | |
| 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) |
guessed |
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