CVE-2025-39838

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - NULL Pointer Dereference in CIFS UTF16 Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in UTF16 conversion There can be a NULL pointer dereference bug here. NULL is passed to __cifs_sfu_make_node without checks, which passes it unchecked to cifs_strndup_to_utf16, which in turn passes it to cifs_local_to_utf16_bytes where '*from' is dereferenced, causing a crash. This patch adds a check for NULL 'src' in cifs_strndup_to_utf16 and returns NULL early to prevent dereferencing NULL pointer. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (13)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.46linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.6linux
Linux/Linux < 6.12
Linux/Linux 41d3f256c6a5e41eb32b87168399c0facd512dc0 - 1f797f062b5cf13a1c2bcc23285361baaa7c9260
Linux/Linux 41d3f256c6a5e41eb32b87168399c0facd512dc0 - 3c26a8d30ed6b53a52a023ec537dc50a6d34a67a
Linux/Linux 41d3f256c6a5e41eb32b87168399c0facd512dc0 - 70bccd9855dae56942f2b18a08ba137bb54093a0
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12.46 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.6 - 6.16.*
... and 3 more
Published Sep 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026