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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38186" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:12.484Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:22:54.658Z" 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-2025-38186" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38186.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38186" title: "bnxt_en: Fix double invocation of bnxt_ulp_stop()/bnxt_ulp_start()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Fix double invocation of bnxt_ulp_stop()/bnxt_ulp_start()\n\nBefore the commit under the Fixes tag below, bnxt_ulp_stop() and\nbnxt_ulp_start() were always invoked in pairs. After that commit,\nthe new bnxt_ulp_restart() can be invoked after bnxt_ulp_stop()\nhas been called. This may result in the RoCE driver's aux driver\n.suspend() method being invoked twice. The 2nd bnxt_re_suspend()\ncall will crash when it dereferences a NULL pointer:\n\n(NULL ib_device): Handle device suspend call\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000b78\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 20 UID: 0 PID: 181 Comm: kworker/u96:5 Tainted: G S 6.15.0-rc1 #4 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nTainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC\nHardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017\nWorkqueue: bnxt_pf_wq bnxt_sp_task [bnxt_en]\nRIP: 0010:bnxt_re_suspend+0x45/0x1f0 [bnxt_re]\nCode: 8b 05 a7 3c 5b f5 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 49 8b 5c 24 08 4d 8b 2c 24 e8 ea 06 0a f4 48 c7 c6 04 60 52 c0 48 89 df e8 1b ce f9 ff \u003c48\u003e 8b 83 78 0b 00 00 48 8b 80 38 03 00 00 a8 40 0f 85 b5 00 00 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffa2e84084fd88 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffb4b6b934 RDI: 00000000ffffffff\nRBP: ffffa1760954c9c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffdfff\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffa2e84084fb50 R12: ffffa176031ef070\nR13: ffffa17609775000 R14: ffffa17603adc180 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa17daa397000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000b78 CR3: 00000004aaa30003 CR4: 00000000003706f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\nbnxt_ulp_stop+0x69/0x90 [bnxt_en]\nbnxt_sp_task+0x678/0x920 [bnxt_en]\n? __schedule+0x514/0xf50\nprocess_scheduled_works+0x9d/0x400\nworker_thread+0x11c/0x260\n? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\nkthread+0xfe/0x1e0\n? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\nret_from_fork+0x2b/0x40\n? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\nret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nCheck the BNXT_EN_FLAG_ULP_STOPPED flag and do not proceed if the flag\nis already set. This will preserve the original symmetrical\nbnxt_ulp_stop() and bnxt_ulp_start().\n\nAlso, inside bnxt_ulp_start(), clear the BNXT_EN_FLAG_ULP_STOPPED\nflag after taking the mutex to avoid any race condition. And for\nsymmetry, only proceed in bnxt_ulp_start() if the\nBNXT_EN_FLAG_ULP_STOPPED is set." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3c163f35bd50314d4e70ed9e83e1d8d83c473325","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f2cd309492924b8afd2c62aebff815c1119d124"},{"version":"3c163f35bd50314d4e70ed9e83e1d8d83c473325","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cca4ffd4a5b768752b91f6f75d77928e47886913"},{"version":"3c163f35bd50314d4e70ed9e83e1d8d83c473325","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e9ac33fa271be0d2480fd732f9642d81542500b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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