CVE-2025-37844 — cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call cifs_server_dbg() implies server to be non-NULL so move call under condition to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Linux / Linux	affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before ba3ce6c60cd5db258687dfeba9fc608f5e7cadf3; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 9c9000cb91b986eb7f75835340c67857ab97c09b; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before b2a1833e1c63e2585867ebeaf4dd41494dcede4b; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 864ba5c651b03830f36f0906c21af05b15c1aaa6; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before e0717385f5c51e290c2cd2ad4699a778316b5132; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 20048e658652e731f5cadf4a695925e570ca0ff9; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 6c14ee6af8f1f188b668afd6d003f7516a507b08; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before b4885bd5935bb26f0a414ad55679a372e53f9b9b; affected 53e83828d352304fec5e19751f38ed8c65e6ec2f; affected 5.6.7 before 5.7
Linux / Linux	affected 5.7; unaffected 0 before 5.7; unaffected 5.10.237 through 5.10.; unaffected 5.15.181 through 5.15.; unaffected 6.1.135 through 6.1.; unaffected 6.6.88 through 6.6.; unaffected 6.12.24 through 6.12.; unaffected 6.13.12 through 6.13.; unaffected 6.14.3 through 6.14.; unaffected 6.15 through

Vendor / product

Versions

Linux / Linux

affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before ba3ce6c60cd5db258687dfeba9fc608f5e7cadf3; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 9c9000cb91b986eb7f75835340c67857ab97c09b; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before b2a1833e1c63e2585867ebeaf4dd41494dcede4b; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 864ba5c651b03830f36f0906c21af05b15c1aaa6; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before e0717385f5c51e290c2cd2ad4699a778316b5132; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 20048e658652e731f5cadf4a695925e570ca0ff9; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before 6c14ee6af8f1f188b668afd6d003f7516a507b08; affected e79b0332ae06b4895dcecddf4bbc5d3917e9383c before b4885bd5935bb26f0a414ad55679a372e53f9b9b; affected 53e83828d352304fec5e19751f38ed8c65e6ec2f; affected 5.6.7 before 5.7

Linux / Linux

affected 5.7; unaffected 0 before 5.7; unaffected 5.10.237 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.181 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.135 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.88 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.24 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.13.12 through 6.13.*; unaffected 6.14.3 through 6.14.*; unaffected 6.15 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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CVE

No English description supplied.