# 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-2025-38699"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:32:51.420Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:05:36.591Z"
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-2025-38699"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38699.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38699"
title: "scsi: bfa: Double-free fix"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: bfa: Double-free fix\n\nWhen the bfad_im_probe() function fails during initialization, the memory\npointed to by bfad-\u003eim is freed without setting bfad-\u003eim to NULL.\n\nSubsequently, during driver uninstallation, when the state machine enters\nthe bfad_sm_stopping state and calls the bfad_im_probe_undo() function,\nit attempts to free the memory pointed to by bfad-\u003eim again, thereby\ntriggering a double-free vulnerability.\n\nSet bfad-\u003eim to NULL if probing fails."
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