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CVE-2025-39838

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Published: Sep 19, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in UTF16 conversion There can be a NULL pointer dereference bug here. NULL is passed to __cifs_sfu_make_node without checks, which passes it unchecked to cifs_strndup_to_utf16, which in turn passes it to cifs_local_to_utf16_bytes where '*from' is dereferenced, causing a crash. This patch adds a check for NULL 'src' in cifs_strndup_to_utf16 and returns NULL early to prevent dereferencing NULL pointer. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE

Affected (7)

1 product
Linux Kernel
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
6 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 6.12 to 6.12.46
From 6.13 to 6.16.6
Version 6.17 rc1
Version 6.17 rc2
Version 6.17 rc3
Version 6.17 rc4
Configuration B
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 11.0

References (5)

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
Source: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e

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