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CVE-2025-39838

cifs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in UTF16 conversion PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 41d3f256c6a5e41eb32b87168399c0facd512dc0 before 1f797f062b5cf13a1c2bcc23285361baaa7c9260; affected 41d3f256c6a5e41eb32b87168399c0facd512dc0 before 3c26a8d30ed6b53a52a023ec537dc50a6d34a67a; affected 41d3f256c6a5e41eb32b87168399c0facd512dc0 before 70bccd9855dae56942f2b18a08ba137bb54093a0
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.12; unaffected 0 before 6.12; unaffected 6.12.46 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.16.6 through 6.16.*; unaffected 6.17 through *

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