Security Advisory

CVE-2025-38562

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-08-19 17:02:39
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:30:29
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference error in generate_encryptionkey If client send two session setups with krb5 authenticate to ksmbd, null pointer dereference error in generate_encryptionkey could happen. sess->Preauth_HashValue is set to NULL if session is valid. So this patch skip generate encryption key if session is valid.