# 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-2025-38695"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:32:48.168Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:05:31.923Z"
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-2025-38695"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38695.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38695"
title: "scsi: lpfc: Check for hdwq null ptr when cleaning up lpfc_vport structure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: lpfc: Check for hdwq null ptr when cleaning up lpfc_vport structure\n\nIf a call to lpfc_sli4_read_rev() from lpfc_sli4_hba_setup() fails, the\nresultant cleanup routine lpfc_sli4_vport_delete_fcp_xri_aborted() may\noccur before sli4_hba.hdwqs are allocated.  This may result in a null\npointer dereference when attempting to take the abts_io_buf_list_lock for\nthe first hardware queue.  Fix by adding a null ptr check on\nphba-\u003esli4_hba.hdwq and early return because this situation means there\nmust have been an error during port initialization."
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