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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39814"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T13:00:15.552Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:36:52.173Z"
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-2025-39814"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39814.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39814"
title: "ice: fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_unplug_aux_dev() on reset"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_unplug_aux_dev() on reset\n\nIssuing a reset when the driver is loaded without RDMA support, will\nresults in a crash as it attempts to remove RDMA's non-existent auxbus\ndevice:\necho 1 \u003e /sys/class/net/\u003cif\u003e/device/reset\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n...\nRIP: 0010:ice_unplug_aux_dev+0x29/0x70 [ice]\n...\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\nice_prepare_for_reset+0x77/0x260 [ice]\npci_dev_save_and_disable+0x2c/0x70\npci_reset_function+0x88/0x130\nreset_store+0x5a/0xa0\nkernfs_fop_write_iter+0x15e/0x210\nvfs_write+0x273/0x520\nksys_write+0x6b/0xe0\ndo_syscall_64+0x79/0x3b0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nice_unplug_aux_dev() checks pf-\u003ecdev_info-\u003eadev for NULL pointer, but\npf-\u003ecdev_info will also be NULL, leading to the deref in the trace above.\n\nIntroduce a flag to be set when the creation of the auxbus device is\nsuccessful, to avoid multiple NULL pointer checks in ice_unplug_aux_dev()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c24a65b6a27c78d8540409800886b6622ea86ebf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db783756a7d7cfaea039411971d0dc0a374e85cb"},{"version":"c24a65b6a27c78d8540409800886b6622ea86ebf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60dfe2434eed13082f26eb7409665dfafb38fa51"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.16.5","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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