# 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-2025-38342"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-10T08:15:11.561Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:14.411Z"
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-2025-38342"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38342.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38342"
title: "software node: Correct a OOB check in software_node_get_reference_args()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsoftware node: Correct a OOB check in software_node_get_reference_args()\n\nsoftware_node_get_reference_args() wants to get @index-th element, so\nthe property value requires at least '(index + 1) * sizeof(*ref)' bytes\nbut that can not be guaranteed by current OOB check, and may cause OOB\nfor malformed property.\n\nFix by using as OOB check '((index + 1) * sizeof(*ref) \u003e prop-\u003elength)'."
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