# 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-2025-38645"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:50.665Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:32:13.638Z"
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-2025-38645"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38645.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38645"
title: "net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage\n\nAdd a NULL check before accessing device memory to prevent a crash if\ndev-\u003edm allocation in mlx5_init_once() fails."
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