# 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-2025-39853"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:25.101Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:07:39.499Z"
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-2025-39853"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39853.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39853"
title: "i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty\n\nlist_first_entry() never returns NULL - if the list is empty, it still\nreturns a pointer to an invalid object, leading to potential invalid\nmemory access when dereferenced.\n\nFix this by using list_first_entry_or_null instead of list_first_entry."
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