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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39949" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39949.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39949" 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-\u003ecdev-\u003edbg_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." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25672c620421fa2105703a94a29a03487245e6d6"},{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0e24571a7b2f8c8f06e25d3417253ebbdbc8d5c"},{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8141910869596b7a3a5d9b46107da2191d523f82"},{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea53e6a47e148b490b1c652fc65d2de5a086df76"},{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"660b2a8f5a306a28c7efc1b4990ecc4912a68f87"},{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70affe82e38fd3dc76b9c68b5a1989f11e7fa0f3"},{"version":"d52c89f120de849575f6b2e5948038f2be12ce6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56c0a2a9ddc2f5b5078c5fb0f81ab76bbc3d4c37"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"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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