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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-21844 (HIGH 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard() Add check for the return value of cifs_buf_get() and cifs_small_buf_get() in receive_encrypted_standard() to prevent null pointer dereferen

[NVD] CVE-2025-21844 (HIGH 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard() Add check for the return value of cifs_buf_get() and cifs_small_buf_get() in receive_encrypted_standard() to prevent null pointer dereferen

lownvdPublished 2025-03-12

CVE-2025-21844 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2025-03-12T10:15:16.677

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard()

Add check for the return value of cifs_buf_get() and cifs_small_buf_get() in receive_encrypted_standard() to prevent null pointer dereference.

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21844