CVE-2025-39853 (GCVE-0-2025-39853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-19 15:26
Modified
2025-09-29 06:01
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty
list_first_entry() never returns NULL - if the list is empty, it still
returns a pointer to an invalid object, leading to potential invalid
memory access when dereferenced.
Fix this by using list_first_entry_or_null instead of list_first_entry.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| ▼ | Linux | Linux |
Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 Version: e3219ce6a775468368fb270fae3eb82a6787b436 |
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