CVE-2025-38737 (GCVE-0-2025-38737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-05 17:20
Modified
2025-09-29 05:57
Severity ?
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.
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Linux Linux Version: a2906d3316fc19bf0ade84618bb73eab604c447e
Version: a2906d3316fc19bf0ade84618bb73eab604c447e
Version: a2906d3316fc19bf0ade84618bb73eab604c447e
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