# 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-2025-38639"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:45.953Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:27.055Z"
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-2025-38639"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38639.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38639"
title: "netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in .. lib/vsprintf.c:721\nRead of size 1 at addr ffff88801eac95c8 by task syz-executor183/5851\n[..]\n string+0x231/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:721\n vsnprintf+0x739/0xf00 lib/vsprintf.c:2874\n [..]\n nfacct_mt_checkentry+0xd2/0xe0 net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c:41\n xt_check_match+0x3d1/0xab0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:523\n\nnfnl_acct_find_get() handles non-null input, but the error\nprintk relied on its presence."
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