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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38569" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:02:49.987Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:00:06.338Z" 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-2025-38569" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38569.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38569" title: "benet: fix BUG when creating VFs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbenet: fix BUG when creating VFs\n\nbenet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created:\n\n kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457!\n Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0\n be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net]\n be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net]\n be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net]\n be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net]\n be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net]\n sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530\n vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60\n ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0\n do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0\n\nbe_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh.\nFix it by freeing only after the lock has been released." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"797bb9439c0489bbea4b8808297ec7a569098667","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3697e37e012bbd2bb5a5b467689811ba097b2eff"},{"version":"7cfae8627511361f90a1a22dfae556c3fbc5bd8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"975e73b9102d844a3dc3f091ad631c56145c8b4c"},{"version":"671aaa17bd3153e25526934f92307169ce927b5e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f80b34ebc579216407b128e9d155bfcae875c30f"},{"version":"4393452e6c0c027971ec9bcc9557f52e63db3f0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46d44a23a3723a89deeb65b13cddb17f8d9f2700"},{"version":"41d731e7920387ea13e2fb440a1e235686faeeb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c377ba2be9430d165a98e4b782902ed630bc7546"},{"version":"fd1ef3b1bdd3fec683ebd19eb3acc6a2cb60b5c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ddfe8b127ef1149fddccb79db6e6eaba7738e7d"},{"version":"1a82d19ca2d6835904ee71e2d40fd331098f94a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5dc09ee5d74277bc47193fe28ce8703e229331b"},{"version":"1a82d19ca2d6835904ee71e2d40fd331098f94a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4e4e0c4bc4d799d6fa39055acdbc3af066cd13e"},{"version":"1a82d19ca2d6835904ee71e2d40fd331098f94a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a40f8af2ba1b9bdf46e2db10e8c9710538fbc63"},{"version":"227a829c9067bf03b1967e7e0b1a6777fd57edef","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.291","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.297"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.241"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.190"},{"version":"6.1.131","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.148"},{"version":"6.6.83","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.102"},{"version":"6.12.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.42"},{"version":"6.13.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.102","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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