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    "id": "CVE-2025-39949",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39949",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-10-04T07:31:10.164Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-08-05T12:06:23.545Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nqed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements\n\nIn the protection override dump path, the firmware can return far too\nmany GRC elements, resulting in attempting to write past the end of the\npreviously-kmalloc'ed dump buffer.\n\nThis will result in a kernel panic with reason:\n\n BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ADDRESS\n\nwhere \"ADDRESS\" is just past the end of the protection override dump\nbuffer. The start address of the buffer is:\n p_hwfn->cdev->dbg_features[DBG_FEATURE_PROTECTION_OVERRIDE].dump_buf\nand the size of the buffer is buf_size in the same data structure.\n\nThe panic can be arrived at from either the qede Ethernet driver path:\n\n    [exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]\n qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc02662ed [qed]\n qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc0267792 [qed]\n qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc026aa8f [qed]\n qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc026b211 [qed]\n qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc027298a [qed]\n devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff82497f61\n devlink_health_report at ffffffff8249cf29\n qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0272baf [qed]\n qede_sp_task at ffffffffc045ed32 [qede]\n process_one_work at ffffffff81d19783\n\nor the qedf storage driver path:\n\n    [exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]\n qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068b2ed [qed]\n qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068c792 [qed]\n qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc068fa8f [qed]\n qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc0690211 [qed]\n qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc069798a [qed]\n devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff8aa95e51\n devlink_health_report at ffffffff8aa9ae19\n qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0697baf [qed]\n qed_hw_err_notify at ffffffffc06d32d7 [qed]\n qed_spq_post at ffffffffc06b1011 [qed]\n qed_fcoe_destroy_conn at ffffffffc06b2e91 [qed]\n qedf_cleanup_fcport at ffffffffc05e7597 [qedf]\n qedf_rport_event_handler at ffffffffc05e7bf7 [qedf]\n fc_rport_work at ffffffffc02da715 [libfc]\n process_one_work at ffffffff8a319663\n\nResolve this by clamping the firmware's return value to the maximum\nnumber of legal elements the firmware should return.",
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