# 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-2025-37998"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-29T13:15:56.197Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:05.968Z"
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-2025-37998"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37998.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37998"
title: "openvswitch: Fix unsafe attribute parsing in output_userspace()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nopenvswitch: Fix unsafe attribute parsing in output_userspace()\n\nThis patch replaces the manual Netlink attribute iteration in\noutput_userspace() with nla_for_each_nested(), which ensures that only\nwell-formed attributes are processed."
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