# 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-2025-39947"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T07:31:08.636Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:39:30.137Z"
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-2025-39947"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39947.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39947"
title: "net/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind\n\nThe function mlx5_uplink_netdev_get() gets the uplink netdevice\npointer from mdev-\u003emlx5e_res.uplink_netdev. However, the netdevice can\nbe removed and its pointer cleared when unbound from the mlx5_core.eth\ndriver. This results in a NULL pointer, causing a kernel panic.\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001300\n at RIP: 0010:mlx5e_vport_rep_load+0x22a/0x270 [mlx5_core]\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  mlx5_esw_offloads_rep_load+0x68/0xe0 [mlx5_core]\n  esw_offloads_enable+0x593/0x910 [mlx5_core]\n  mlx5_eswitch_enable_locked+0x341/0x420 [mlx5_core]\n  mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x17e/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]\n  devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x60/0xd0\n  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe0/0x130\n  genl_rcv_msg+0x183/0x290\n  netlink_rcv_skb+0x4b/0xf0\n  genl_rcv+0x24/0x40\n  netlink_unicast+0x255/0x380\n  netlink_sendmsg+0x1f3/0x420\n  __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60\n  __sys_sendto+0x119/0x180\n  do_syscall_64+0x53/0x1d0\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\nEnsure the pointer is valid before use by checking it for NULL. If it\nis valid, immediately call netdev_hold() to take a reference, and\npreventing the netdevice from being freed while it is in use."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7a9fb35e8c3a67145fca262c304de65cb2f83abf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cb17c88edd3a1c7aa6bc880dcdb35a6866fcb2e"},{"version":"7a9fb35e8c3a67145fca262c304de65cb2f83abf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1f3db4e7a3be29fc17f01850f162363f919370d"},{"version":"7a9fb35e8c3a67145fca262c304de65cb2f83abf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8df354eb2dd63d111ed5ae2e956e0dbb22bcf93b"},{"version":"7a9fb35e8c3a67145fca262c304de65cb2f83abf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b4be64fd9fec16418f365c2d8e47a7566e9eba5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"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"}]

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