CVE-2025-38737
Aliases:RHSA-2025:23009UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38737DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38737
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 5
Modified
Published: 05 Sept 2025, 17:20
Last modified:05 Aug 2026, 12:04
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100 CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.37% LOW
0% probability +0.35%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
05 Sept 2025, 17:20
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2026, 12:04
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix oops due to uninitialised variable Fix smb3_init_transform_rq() to initialise buffer to NULL before calling netfs_alloc_folioq_buffer() as netfs assumes it can append to the buffer it is given. Setting it to NULL means it should start a fresh buffer, but the value is currently undefined.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.37%• Percentile: 31%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-908•Use of Uninitialized Resource
The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.
Affected Systems
- debian•linux
< 6.12.48-1 | < 6.16.5-1
- ubuntu•linux-allwinner-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.0
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde
all | all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-nvidia-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-bluefield
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke-5.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-gkeop
all
- ubuntu•linux-gkeop-5.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gkeop-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-hwe
all
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-5.8
all
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References (14)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4931fe2dbe1cc0e7d350a4b51b0b330e43971d98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6adaa9fae36f848afa7278945d725e197e33c496
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/453a6d2a68e54a483d67233c6e1e24c4095ee4be
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23009
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393527
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_23009.json
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38737
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38737
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38737
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025090544-CVE-2025-38737-4cde@gregkh/T
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38737
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/453a6d2a68e54a483d67233c6e1e24c4095ee4be
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-38737