FKIE_CVE-2025-38562

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-19 17:15 - Updated: 2026-01-08 20:51
Severity ?
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 error in generate_encryptionkey If client send two session setups with krb5 authenticate to ksmbd, null pointer dereference error in generate_encryptionkey could happen. sess->Preauth_HashValue is set to NULL if session is valid. So this patch skip generate encryption key if session is valid.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/015ef163d65496ae3ba6192c96140a22743f0353Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a30ed6428ce83afedca1a6c5c5c4247bcf12d0ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96a82e19434a2522525baab59c33332658bc7653Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b493ab6f35178afd8d619800df9071992f715dePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c2dbbc959e1fcc6f603a1a843e9cf743ba383bbPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d79c8bebaa622ee223128be7c66d8aaeeb634a57Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-917/Third Party Advisory, Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.htmlThird Party Advisory, Mailing List
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
debian debian_linux 11.0
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