Bug 2365285 (CVE-2025-37844) - CVE-2025-37844 kernel: cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call
Summary: CVE-2025-37844 kernel: cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-37844
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-09 07:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-09 07:57 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-09 07:03:18 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Michal Findra 2025-05-09 07:54:24 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050917-CVE-2025-37844-f733@gregkh/T
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