# 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-2025-38257"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-09T10:42:34.395Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:12.939Z"
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-2025-38257"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38257.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38257"
title: "s390/pkey: Prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/pkey: Prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user()\n\nNumber of apqn target list entries contained in 'nr_apqns' variable is\ndetermined by userspace via an ioctl call so the result of the product in\ncalculation of size passed to memdup_user() may overflow.\n\nIn this case the actual size of the allocated area and the value\ndescribing it won't be in sync leading to various types of unpredictable\nbehaviour later.\n\nUse a proper memdup_array_user() helper which returns an error if an\noverflow is detected. Note that it is different from when nr_apqns is\ninitially zero - that case is considered valid and should be handled in\nsubsequent pkey_handler implementations.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org)."
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