CVE-2025-38431 (GCVE-0-2025-38431)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-25 14:22
Modified
2025-07-28 04:22
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 12b466eb52d926802b6898d2cb7e67386467f54a
Version: 12b466eb52d926802b6898d2cb7e67386467f54a
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