# 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-2025-38694"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:32:47.449Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:05:30.790Z"
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-2025-38694"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38694.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38694"
title: "media: dvb-frontends: dib7090p: fix null-ptr-deref in dib7090p_rw_on_apb()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: dvb-frontends: dib7090p: fix null-ptr-deref in dib7090p_rw_on_apb()\n\nIn dib7090p_rw_on_apb, msg is controlled by user. When msg[0].buf is null and\nmsg[0].len is zero, former checks on msg[0].buf would be passed. If accessing\nmsg[0].buf[2] without sanity check, null pointer deref would happen. We add\ncheck on msg[0].len to prevent crash. Similar issue occurs when access\nmsg[1].buf[0] and msg[1].buf[1].\n\nSimilar commit: commit 0ed554fd769a (\"media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()\")"
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