# 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-2025-38531"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-16T11:12:24.405Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:29:49.607Z"
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-2025-38531"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38531.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38531"
title: "iio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs\n\nThroughout the various probe functions &indio_dev-\u003edev is used before it\nis initialized. This caused a kernel panic in st_sensors_power_enable()\nwhen the call to devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable() fails and then calls\ndev_err_probe() with the uninitialized device.\n\nThis seems to only cause a panic with dev_err_probe(), dev_err(),\ndev_warn() and dev_info() don't seem to cause a panic, but are fixed\nas well.\n\nThe issue is reported and traced here: [1]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9d4b618f1b9e6d760cc7c15052b92f7faf47201"},{"version":"4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"610615c9668037e3eca11132063b93b2d945af13"},{"version":"4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3297a9016a45144883ec990bd4bd5b1d79cafb46"},{"version":"4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f92e93e257b33e73622640a9205f8642ec16ddd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.6.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","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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