# 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-2025-38460"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:38.608Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:16.661Z"
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-2025-38460"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38460.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38460"
title: "atm: clip: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in to_atmarpd()."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\natm: clip: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in to_atmarpd().\n\natmarpd is protected by RTNL since commit f3a0592b37b8 (\"[ATM]: clip\ncauses unregister hang\").\n\nHowever, it is not enough because to_atmarpd() is called without RTNL,\nespecially clip_neigh_solicit() / neigh_ops-\u003esolicit() is unsleepable.\n\nAlso, there is no RTNL dependency around atmarpd.\n\nLet's use a private mutex and RCU to protect access to atmarpd in\nto_atmarpd()."
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