CVE-2025-21844EPSS p47.9%
CVE-2025-21844CVE-2025-21844
linux / linux_kernel
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.62% probability of exploitation · percentile 47.9% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |