# 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-2025-38408"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T13:20:13.253Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:15.497Z"
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-2025-38408"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38408.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38408"
title: "genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngenirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly\n\nInitialize `ops` member's pointers properly by using kzalloc() instead of\nkmalloc() when allocating the simulation work context. Otherwise the\npointers contain random content leading to invalid dereferencing."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861"},{"version":"337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fb"},{"version":"337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629"},{"version":"337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080a"},{"version":"337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955c"},{"version":"337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a2277a3c9e4cc5398f80821afe7ecbe9bdf2819"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.15.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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