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    "id": "CVE-2025-38431",
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    "status": "PUBLISHED",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks\n\nSome users and customers reported that their backup/copy tools started\nto fail when the directory being copied contained symlink targets that\nthe client couldn't parse - even when those symlinks weren't followed.\n\nFix this by allowing lstat(2) and readlink(2) to succeed even when the\nclient can't resolve the symlink target, restoring old behavior.",
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