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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 5, 2025· Updated Sep 29, 2025

cifs: Fix oops due to uninitialised variable

CVE-2025-38737

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.

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