CVE-2025-37956

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: prevent rename with empty string Client can send empty newname string to ksmbd server. It will cause a kernel oops from d_alloc. This patch return the error when attempting to rename a file or directory with an empty new name string.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7f2c00acb1ef64304fd40ac507e9213ff1d9b5c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c57301e332cc413fe0a7294a90725f4e21e9549d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ee551672c8cf36108b0cfba92ec0c7c28ac3439

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53e3e5babc0963a92d856a5ec0ce92c59f54bc12

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-20

Updated: 2025-05-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018