# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38399"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:53:43.211Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:15.159Z"
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-2025-38399"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38399.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38399"
title: "scsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference in core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference in core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port()\n\nThe function core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port(), in its error code path,\nunconditionally calls core_scsi3_lunacl_undepend_item() passing the\ndest_se_deve pointer, which may be NULL.\n\nThis can lead to a NULL pointer dereference if dest_se_deve remains\nunset.\n\nSPC-3 PR SPEC_I_PT: Unable to locate dest_tpg\nUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000012\nCall trace:\n  core_scsi3_lunacl_undepend_item+0x2c/0xf0 [target_core_mod] (P)\n  core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port+0x120c/0x1c30 [target_core_mod]\n  core_scsi3_emulate_pro_register+0x6b8/0xcd8 [target_core_mod]\n  target_scsi3_emulate_pr_out+0x56c/0x840 [target_core_mod]\n\nFix this by adding a NULL check before calling\ncore_scsi3_lunacl_undepend_item()"
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