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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39911" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-01T07:44:34.561Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-11T18:44:05.563Z" 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-2025-39911" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39911.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39911" title: "i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path\n\nIf request_irq() in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix() fails in an iteration\nlater than the first, the error path wants to free the IRQs requested\nso far. However, it uses the wrong dev_id argument for free_irq(), so\nit does not free the IRQs correctly and instead triggers the warning:\n\n Trying to free already-free IRQ 173\n WARNING: CPU: 25 PID: 1091 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1829 __free_irq+0x192/0x2c0\n Modules linked in: i40e(+) [...]\n CPU: 25 UID: 0 PID: 1091 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1+ #1 PREEMPT(lazy)\n Hardware name: [...]\n RIP: 0010:__free_irq+0x192/0x2c0\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n free_irq+0x32/0x70\n i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix.cold+0x63/0x8b [i40e]\n i40e_vsi_request_irq+0x79/0x80 [i40e]\n i40e_vsi_open+0x21f/0x2f0 [i40e]\n i40e_open+0x63/0x130 [i40e]\n __dev_open+0xfc/0x210\n __dev_change_flags+0x1fc/0x240\n netif_change_flags+0x27/0x70\n do_setlink.isra.0+0x341/0xc70\n rtnl_newlink+0x468/0x860\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x375/0x450\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x110\n netlink_unicast+0x288/0x3c0\n netlink_sendmsg+0x20d/0x430\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x3a2/0x3d0\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0\n __sys_sendmsg+0x8a/0xf0\n do_syscall_64+0x82/0x2c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n [...]\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nUse the same dev_id for free_irq() as for request_irq().\n\nI tested this with inserting code to fail intentionally." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13ab9adef3cd386511c930a9660ae06595007f89"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e4016c0dca53afc71e3b99e24252b63417395df"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9721a023df38cf44a88f2739b4cf51efd051f85"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b905b2acb3a0bbb08ad9be9984d8cdabdf827315"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23431998a37764c464737b855c71a81d50992e98"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a30afd6617c30aaa338d1dbcb1e34e7a1890085c"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c62580674ce5feb1be4f90b5873ff3ce50e0a1db"},{"version":"493fb30011b3ab5173cef96f1d1ce126da051792","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"915470e1b44e71d1dd07ee067276f003c3521ee3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"5.4.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.245","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.194","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.107","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.48","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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