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, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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)	5.10.234-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.129-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.128-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.19-1	fixed
	sid	6.12.20-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	6.12.17-1

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