CVE-2025-38431 Information

Jul 26, 2025 cve

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ddaf7567080c7de2e0c99efca2ee1e6b79beea5 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8abbd248c1f52df0c321690b88454b13ff54b2

CNNVD-202507-3261 (Published: 2025-07-25)

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