# 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-2025-38395"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:53:39.933Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:01:33.139Z"
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-2025-38395"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38395.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38395"
title: "regulator: gpio: Fix the out-of-bounds access to drvdata::gpiods"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nregulator: gpio: Fix the out-of-bounds access to drvdata::gpiods\n\ndrvdata::gpiods is supposed to hold an array of 'gpio_desc' pointers. But\nthe memory is allocated for only one pointer. This will lead to\nout-of-bounds access later in the code if 'config::ngpios' is \u003e 1. So\nfix the code to allocate enough memory to hold 'config::ngpios' of GPIO\ndescriptors.\n\nWhile at it, also move the check for memory allocation failure to be below\nthe allocation to make it more readable."
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