# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38665"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:02:57.458Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:32:36.485Z"
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-2025-38665"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38665.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38665"
title: "can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode\n\nAndrei Lalaev reported a NULL pointer deref when a CAN device is\nrestarted from Bus Off and the driver does not implement the struct\ncan_priv::do_set_mode callback.\n\nThere are 2 code path that call struct can_priv::do_set_mode:\n- directly by a manual restart from the user space, via\n  can_changelink()\n- delayed automatic restart after bus off (deactivated by default)\n\nTo prevent the NULL pointer deference, refuse a manual restart or\nconfigure the automatic restart delay in can_changelink() and report\nthe error via extack to user space.\n\nAs an additional safety measure let can_restart() return an error if\ncan_priv::do_set_mode is not set instead of dereferencing it\nunchecked."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"39549eef3587f1c1e8c65c88a2400d10fd30ea17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bbcf37c5114926c99a1d1e6993a5b35689d2599"},{"version":"39549eef3587f1c1e8c65c88a2400d10fd30ea17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf81a60a973358dea163f6b14062f17831ceb894"},{"version":"39549eef3587f1c1e8c65c88a2400d10fd30ea17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ca816a96fdcf32644c80cbe7a82c7b6ce6ddda5"},{"version":"39549eef3587f1c1e8c65c88a2400d10fd30ea17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6acceb46180f9e160d4f0c56fcaf39ba562822ae"},{"version":"39549eef3587f1c1e8c65c88a2400d10fd30ea17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1f3f9797c1f44a762e6f5f72520b2e520537b52"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.31"},{"version":"6.1.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.41","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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