# 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-2025-38617"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T13:01:23.963Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:26.912Z"
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-2025-38617"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38617.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38617"
title: "net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()\n\nWhen packet_set_ring() releases po-\u003ebind_lock, another thread can\nrun packet_notifier() and process an NETDEV_UP event.\n\nThis race and the fix are both similar to that of commit 15fe076edea7\n(\"net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()\").\n\nThere too the packet_notifier NETDEV_UP event managed to run while a\npo-\u003ebind_lock critical section had to be temporarily released. And\nthe fix was similarly to temporarily set po-\u003enum to zero to keep\nthe socket unhooked until the lock is retaken.\n\nThe po-\u003ebind_lock in packet_set_ring and packet_notifier precede the\nintroduction of git history."
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