# 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-2025-38157"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:59.734Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:22:21.871Z"
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-2025-38157"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38157.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38157"
title: "wifi: ath9k_htc: Abort software beacon handling if disabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k_htc: Abort software beacon handling if disabled\n\nA malicious USB device can send a WMI_SWBA_EVENTID event from an\nath9k_htc-managed device before beaconing has been enabled. This causes\na device-by-zero error in the driver, leading to either a crash or an\nout of bounds read.\n\nPrevent this by aborting the handling in ath9k_htc_swba() if beacons are\nnot enabled."
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