# 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-2025-71120"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-14T15:06:07.194Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:15:14.623Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-71120"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71120.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71120"
title: "SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf\n\nA zero length gss_token results in pages == 0 and in_token-\u003epages[0]\nis NULL. The code unconditionally evaluates\npage_address(in_token-\u003epages[0]) for the initial memcpy, which can\ndereference NULL even when the copy length is 0. Guard the first\nmemcpy so it only runs when length \u003e 0."
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