CVE-2025-38431
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38431
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38431.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38431
- Downstream
- Published
- 2025-07-25T14:22:34.363Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-20T12:42:51.838538Z
- Summary
- smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks
Some users and customers reported that their backup/copy tools started to fail when the directory being copied contained symlink targets that the client couldn't parse - even when those symlinks weren't followed.
Fix this by allowing lstat(2) and readlink(2) to succeed even when the client can't resolve the symlink target, restoring old behavior.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38431.json", "cna_assigner": "Linux" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ddaf7567080c7de2e0c99efca2ee1e6b79beea5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8abbd248c1f52df0c321690b88454b13ff54b2
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38431.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38431
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git