# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21844"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-12T09:42:00.435Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:42.188Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21844"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21844.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21844"
title: "smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard()\n\nAdd check for the return value of cifs_buf_get() and cifs_small_buf_get()\nin receive_encrypted_standard() to prevent null pointer dereference."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b03c8099a738a04d2343547ae6a04e5f0f63d3fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f277e479eea3d1aa18bc712abe1d2bf3dece2e30"},{"version":"858e73ff25639a0cc1f6f8d2587b62c045867e41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f618aeb6cad2307e48a641379db610abcf593edf"},{"version":"9f528a8e68327117837b5e28b096f52af4c26a05","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24e8e4523d3071bc5143b0db9127d511489f7b3b"},{"version":"534733397da26de0303057ce0b93a22bda150365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e5d99a4cf2e23c716b44862975548415fae5391"},{"version":"eec04ea119691e65227a97ce53c0da6b9b74b0b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9b0b4b29877cb4dc5d0842b59b5ccbacddb85bd"},{"version":"eec04ea119691e65227a97ce53c0da6b9b74b0b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"554736b583f529ee159aa95af9a0cbc12b5ffc96"},{"version":"eec04ea119691e65227a97ce53c0da6b9b74b0b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"860ca5e50f73c2a1cef7eefc9d39d04e275417f7"},{"version":"5.10.211","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.235"},{"version":"5.15.150","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.179"},{"version":"6.1.69","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.130"},{"version":"6.6.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.80"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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