# 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-2025-38634"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:42.376Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:32:00.899Z"
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-2025-38634"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38634.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38634"
title: "power: supply: cpcap-charger: Fix null check for power_supply_get_by_name"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npower: supply: cpcap-charger: Fix null check for power_supply_get_by_name\n\nIn the cpcap_usb_detect() function, the power_supply_get_by_name()\nfunction may return `NULL` instead of an error pointer.\nTo prevent potential null pointer dereferences, Added a null check."
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