CVE-2025-38431

Description

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.

Affected products

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ddaf7567080c7de2e0c99efca2ee1e6b79beea5 ↗
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8abbd248c1f52df0c321690b88454b13ff54b2 ↗