vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-38431: kernel: smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 25, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Added
Jul 31, 2025
Modified
Jul 31, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks
Some users and customers reported that their backup/copy tools started
to fail when the directory being copied contained symlink targets that
the client couldn't parse - even when those symlinks weren't followed.
Fix this by allowing lstat(2) and readlink(2) to succeed even when the
client can't resolve the symlink target, restoring old behavior.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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