# 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-2025-37808"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-08T06:26:06.886Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:15:32.735Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-37808"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37808.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37808"
title: "crypto: null - Use spin lock instead of mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: null - Use spin lock instead of mutex\n\nAs the null algorithm may be freed in softirq context through\naf_alg, use spin locks instead of mutexes to protect the default\nnull algorithm."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7a5a5c8e1ec16a4b2041398abe95de0e14572ef"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e307c54ac8198bf09652c72603ba6e6d97798410"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1dd4a8561d85dea545cf93f56efc48df8176e218"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e27244cbe10658a66b8775be7f0acc4ad2f618d6"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b66a5920b7fc7cc6251192a3fcad115b6d75dd5"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0486de3c1b8223138dcc614846bd76364f758de6"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8cf2945512a8c0ef74ddd5b5a4f6b6a2fb1a4efb"},{"version":"330234638e16b7b95e8e5e6be719a61a93f074b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcc47a028c24e793ce6d6efebfef1a1e92f80297"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.89","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.26","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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