# 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-2025-38039"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:25.111Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:20:06.451Z"
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-2025-38039"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38039.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38039"
title: "net/mlx5e: Avoid WARN_ON when configuring MQPRIO with HTB offload enabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Avoid WARN_ON when configuring MQPRIO with HTB offload enabled\n\nWhen attempting to enable MQPRIO while HTB offload is already\nconfigured, the driver currently returns `-EINVAL` and triggers a\n`WARN_ON`, leading to an unnecessary call trace.\n\nUpdate the code to handle this case more gracefully by returning\n`-EOPNOTSUPP` instead, while also providing a helpful user message."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"090c0ba179eaf7b670e720aa054533756a43d565"},{"version":"214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b82e496531c571caf8a2ef247f51c160bab2162e"},{"version":"214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e2bac6835f73895598df5a3a125a19497fad46b"},{"version":"214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"689805dcc474c2accb5cffbbcea1c06ee4a54570"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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