DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38737

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix oops due to uninitialised variable Fix smb3inittransformrq to initialise buffer to NULL before calling netfsallocfolioqbuffer as netfs assumes it can append to the buffer it is given. Setting it to NULL means it should...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38737

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix oops due to uninitialised variable Fix smb3inittransformrq to initialise buffer to NULL before calling netfsallocfolioqbuffer as netfs assumes it can append to the buffer it is given. Setting it to NULL means it should...

CVE-2025-38737

CVE-2025-38737 affects the Linux kernel CIFS/smb3 code. The issue is a crash (an oops) caused by an uninitialised variable in smb3_init_transform_rq(), where netfs_alloc_folioq_buffer() is called with an undefined buffer. The fix initialises the buffer to NULL before the call so that netfs starts...