THREAT OPS › Threat 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
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
- CVE-2025-21844cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21844