# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38183"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:10.253Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:22:51.198Z"
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-2025-38183"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38183.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38183"
title: "net: lan743x: fix potential out-of-bounds write in lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: lan743x: fix potential out-of-bounds write in lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get()\n\nBefore calling lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get(), the 'channel' value\nis checked against the maximum value of PCI11X1X_PTP_IO_MAX_CHANNELS(8).\nThis seems correct and aligns with the PTP interrupt status register\n(PTP_INT_STS) specifications.\n\nHowever, lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get() writes to ptp-\u003eextts[] with\nonly LAN743X_PTP_N_EXTTS(4) elements, using channel as an index:\n\n    lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get(..., u8 channel,...)\n    {\n        ...\n        /* Update Local timestamp */\n        extts = &ptp-\u003eextts[channel];\n        extts-\u003ets.tv_sec = sec;\n        ...\n    }\n\nTo avoid an out-of-bounds write and utilize all the supported GPIO\ninputs, set LAN743X_PTP_N_EXTTS to 8.\n\nDetected using the static analysis tool - Svace."
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