# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

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-2025-21762"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:18:14.600Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:08.393Z"
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-2025-21762"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21762.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21762"
title: "arp: use RCU protection in arp_xmit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narp: use RCU protection in arp_xmit()\n\narp_xmit() can be called without RTNL or RCU protection.\n\nUse RCU protection to avoid potential UAF."
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