# 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-2025-38609"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:03:52.542Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:31:32.425Z"
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-2025-38609"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38609.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38609"
title: "PM / devfreq: Check governor before using governor-\u003ename"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPM / devfreq: Check governor before using governor-\u003ename\n\nCommit 96ffcdf239de (\"PM / devfreq: Remove redundant governor_name from\nstruct devfreq\") removes governor_name and uses governor-\u003ename to replace\nit. But devfreq-\u003egovernor may be NULL and directly using\ndevfreq-\u003egovernor-\u003ename may cause null pointer exception. Move the check of\ngovernor to before using governor-\u003ename."
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