# 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-2025-38074"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:50.006Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:59:14.881Z"
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-2025-38074"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38074.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38074"
title: "vhost-scsi: protect vq-\u003elog_used with vq-\u003emutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost-scsi: protect vq-\u003elog_used with vq-\u003emutex\n\nThe vhost-scsi completion path may access vq-\u003elog_base when vq-\u003elog_used is\nalready set to false.\n\n    vhost-thread                       QEMU-thread\n\nvhost_scsi_complete_cmd_work()\n-\u003e vhost_add_used()\n   -\u003e vhost_add_used_n()\n      if (unlikely(vq-\u003elog_used))\n                                      QEMU disables vq-\u003elog_used\n                                      via VHOST_SET_VRING_ADDR.\n                                      mutex_lock(&vq-\u003emutex);\n                                      vq-\u003elog_used = false now!\n                                      mutex_unlock(&vq-\u003emutex);\n\n\t\t\t\t      QEMU gfree(vq-\u003elog_base)\n        log_used()\n        -\u003e log_write(vq-\u003elog_base)\n\nAssuming the VMM is QEMU. The vq-\u003elog_base is from QEMU userpace and can be\nreclaimed via gfree(). As a result, this causes invalid memory writes to\nQEMU userspace.\n\nThe control queue path has the same issue."
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