# 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-2025-38514"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-16T10:55:01.150Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:18.287Z"
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-2025-38514"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38514.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38514"
title: "rxrpc: Fix oops due to non-existence of prealloc backlog struct"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Fix oops due to non-existence of prealloc backlog struct\n\nIf an AF_RXRPC service socket is opened and bound, but calls are\npreallocated, then rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() will oops because the\nrxrpc_backlog struct doesn't get allocated until the first preallocation is\nmade.\n\nFix this by returning NULL from rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() if there is no\nbacklog struct.  This will cause the incoming call to be aborted."
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