Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-38431
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 3.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
References
Products affected by CVE-2025-38431
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16