# 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-2025-38546"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-16T11:22:20.477Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:30:10.919Z"
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-2025-38546"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38546.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38546"
title: "atm: clip: Fix memory leak of struct clip_vcc."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\natm: clip: Fix memory leak of struct clip_vcc.\n\nioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) allocates struct clip_vcc and set it to\nvcc-\u003euser_back.\n\nThe code assumes that vcc_destroy_socket() passes NULL skb\nto vcc-\u003epush() when the socket is close()d, and then clip_push()\nfrees clip_vcc.\n\nHowever, ioctl(ATMARPD_CTRL) sets NULL to vcc-\u003epush() in\natm_init_atmarp(), resulting in memory leak.\n\nLet's serialise two ioctl() by lock_sock() and check vcc-\u003epush()\nin atm_init_atmarp() to prevent memleak."
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