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FKIE_CVE-2025-22037

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-04-16 15:15 - Updated: 2026-07-30 06:22

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in alloc_preauth_hash() The Client send malformed smb2 negotiate request. ksmbd return error response. Subsequently, the client can send smb2 session setup even thought conn->preauth_info is not allocated. This patch add KSMBD_SESS_NEED_SETUP status of connection to ignore session setup request if smb2 negotiate phase is not complete.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f216b33a5e1b3489c073b1ea1b3d7cb63c8dc4d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8eb243e670ecf30e91524dd12f7260dac07d335	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8b5b7c5da7d0c31c9b7190b4a7bba5281fc4780	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca8bed31edf728a662ef9d6f39f50e7a7dc2b5ad	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cce57cd8c5dead24127cf2308fdd60fcad2d6ba6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-310/

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2025-22037 (GCVE-0-2025-22037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:11 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:56

Title

ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in alloc_preauth_hash()

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cce57cd8c5dead241…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca8bed31edf728a66…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f216b33a5e1b3489…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8eb243e670ecf30e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8b5b7c5da7d0c31c…
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < cce57cd8c5dead24127cf2308fdd60fcad2d6ba6 (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < ca8bed31edf728a662ef9d6f39f50e7a7dc2b5ad (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < 8f216b33a5e1b3489c073b1ea1b3d7cb63c8dc4d (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < b8eb243e670ecf30e91524dd12f7260dac07d335 (git) Affected: 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf , < c8b5b7c5da7d0c31c9b7190b4a7bba5281fc4780 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.107 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.23 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.13.11 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.