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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 12, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-21844

CVE-2025-21844

Description

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.

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