# 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-2025-38403"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T13:08:09.954Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-11T18:44:06.825Z"
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-2025-38403"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38403.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38403"
title: "vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it\n\nIn vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before\npopulating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the\nstructure."
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