CVE-2025-21844

Name	CVE-2025-21844
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard() Add check for the return value of cifs_buf_get() and cifs_small_buf_get() in receive_encrypted_standard() to prevent null pointer dereference.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4178-1, DLA-4193-1, DSA-5900-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.259-1	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	6.1.176-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.94-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.95-1	fixed
	forky, sid	7.1.3-1	fixed
linux-6.1 (PTS)	bullseye (security)	6.1.176-1~deb11u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.237-1	DLA-4178-1
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.133-1	DSA-5900-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.12.17-1
linux-6.1	source	bullseye	6.1.137-1~deb11u1	DLA-4193-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/860ca5e50f73c2a1cef7eefc9d39d04e275417f7 (6.14-rc4)