# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38006"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:28:17.773Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:29.451Z"
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-2025-38006"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38006.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38006"
title: "net: mctp: Don't access ifa_index when missing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mctp: Don't access ifa_index when missing\n\nIn mctp_dump_addrinfo, ifa_index can be used to filter interfaces, but\nonly when the struct ifaddrmsg is provided. Otherwise it will be\ncomparing to uninitialised memory - reproducible in the syzkaller case from\ndhcpd, or busybox \"ip addr show\".\n\nThe kernel MCTP implementation has always filtered by ifa_index, so\nexisting userspace programs expecting to dump MCTP addresses must\nalready be passing a valid ifa_index value (either 0 or a real index).\n\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mctp_dump_addrinfo+0x208/0xac0 net/mctp/device.c:128\n mctp_dump_addrinfo+0x208/0xac0 net/mctp/device.c:128\n rtnl_dump_all+0x3ec/0x5b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4380\n rtnl_dumpit+0xd5/0x2f0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6824\n netlink_dump+0x97b/0x1690 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2309"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"583be982d93479ea3d85091b0fd0b01201ede87d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ef7b3f0db69e2f4a80be351f6aee9a4c2332ef9"},{"version":"583be982d93479ea3d85091b0fd0b01201ede87d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acab78ae12c7fefb4f3bfe22e00770a5faa42724"},{"version":"583be982d93479ea3d85091b0fd0b01201ede87d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4d1561d17eb72908e4489c0900d96e0484fac20"},{"version":"583be982d93479ea3d85091b0fd0b01201ede87d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24fa213dffa470166ec014f979f36c6ff44afb45"},{"version":"583be982d93479ea3d85091b0fd0b01201ede87d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f11cf946c0a92c560a890d68e4775723353599e1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.6.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.8","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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