# 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-2025-38061"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:40.241Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:20:30.915Z"
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-2025-38061"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38061.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38061"
title: "net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write()\n\nHonour the user given buffer size for the strn_len() calls (otherwise\nstrn_len() will access memory outside of the user given buffer)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3d89f1cfe1e6d4bb164db2595511fd33db21900"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bfa81539e22af4c40ae5d43d7212253462383a6"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"128cdb617a87767c29be43e4431129942fce41df"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef1158a6a650ecee72ab40851b1d52e04d3f9cb5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c81c2ee1c3b050ed5c4e92876590cc7a259183f6"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b1d3e9db82d01a88de1795b879df67c2116b4f4"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fef258b555c75a467a6b4b7e3a3cbc46d5f4102"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"425e64440ad0a2f03bdaf04be0ae53dededbaa77"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","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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