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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 25, 2025· Updated Jul 28, 2025

smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks

CVE-2025-38431

Description

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

smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks

Some users and customers reported that their backup/copy tools started to fail when the directory being copied contained symlink targets that the client couldn't parse - even when those symlinks weren't followed.

Fix this by allowing lstat(2) and readlink(2) to succeed even when the client can't resolve the symlink target, restoring old behavior.

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Patches

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