# 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-2025-38112"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:21.276Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:21:29.520Z"
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-2025-38112"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38112.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38112"
title: "net: Fix TOCTOU issue in sk_is_readable()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: Fix TOCTOU issue in sk_is_readable()\n\nsk-\u003esk_prot-\u003esock_is_readable is a valid function pointer when sk resides\nin a sockmap. After the last sk_psock_put() (which usually happens when\nsocket is removed from sockmap), sk-\u003esk_prot gets restored and\nsk-\u003esk_prot-\u003esock_is_readable becomes NULL.\n\nThis makes sk_is_readable() racy, if the value of sk-\u003esk_prot is reloaded\nafter the initial check. Which in turn may lead to a null pointer\ndereference.\n\nEnsure the function pointer does not turn NULL after the check."
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