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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39945" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-04T07:31:07.109Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:06:20.222Z" 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-2025-39945" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39945.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39945" title: "cnic: Fix use-after-free bugs in cnic_delete_task" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncnic: Fix use-after-free bugs in cnic_delete_task\n\nThe original code uses cancel_delayed_work() in cnic_cm_stop_bnx2x_hw(),\nwhich does not guarantee that the delayed work item 'delete_task' has\nfully completed if it was already running. Additionally, the delayed work\nitem is cyclic, the flush_workqueue() in cnic_cm_stop_bnx2x_hw() only\nblocks and waits for work items that were already queued to the\nworkqueue prior to its invocation. Any work items submitted after\nflush_workqueue() is called are not included in the set of tasks that the\nflush operation awaits. This means that after the cyclic work items have\nfinished executing, a delayed work item may still exist in the workqueue.\nThis leads to use-after-free scenarios where the cnic_dev is deallocated\nby cnic_free_dev(), while delete_task remains active and attempt to\ndereference cnic_dev in cnic_delete_task().\n\nA typical race condition is illustrated below:\n\nCPU 0 (cleanup) | CPU 1 (delayed work callback)\ncnic_netdev_event() |\n cnic_stop_hw() | cnic_delete_task()\n cnic_cm_stop_bnx2x_hw() | ...\n cancel_delayed_work() | /* the queue_delayed_work()\n flush_workqueue() | executes after flush_workqueue()*/\n | queue_delayed_work()\n cnic_free_dev(dev)//free | cnic_delete_task() //new instance\n | dev = cp-\u003edev; //use\n\nReplace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure\nthat the cyclic delayed work item is properly canceled and that any\nongoing execution of the work item completes before the cnic_dev is\ndeallocated. Furthermore, since cancel_delayed_work_sync() uses\n__flush_work(work, true) to synchronously wait for any currently\nexecuting instance of the work item to finish, the flush_workqueue()\nbecomes redundant and should be removed.\n\nThis bug was identified through static analysis. To reproduce the issue\nand validate the fix, I simulated the cnic PCI device in QEMU and\nintroduced intentional delays — such as inserting calls to ssleep()\nwithin the cnic_delete_task() function — to increase the likelihood\nof triggering the bug." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fde6e73189f40ebcf0633aed2b68e731c25f3aa3"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b6a5b0a6b392263c3767fc945b311ea04b34bbd"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0405055930264ea8fd26f4131466fa7652e5e47d"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1fcd4a9c09feac0902a65615e866dbf22616125"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8eeb2091e72d75df8ceaa2172638d61b4cf8929a"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e33a7eed587062ca8161ad1f4584882a860d697"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0627e1481676669cae2df0d85b5ff13e7d24c390"},{"version":"fdf24086f4752aee5dfb40143c736250df017820","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfa7d9b1e3a8604afc84e9e51d789c29574fb216"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.37","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.37"},{"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":"6.1.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.9","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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