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CVE-2025-38737

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2025-09-05 Modified: 2026-07-30

Description

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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-908

References