# 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-2025-39969"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-15T07:55:52.948Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:34.578Z"
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-2025-39969"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39969.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39969"
title: "i40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources\n\nVF state I40E_VF_STATE_ACTIVE is not the only state in which\nVF is actually active so it should not be used to determine\nif a VF is allowed to obtain resources.\n\nUse I40E_VF_STATE_RESOURCES_LOADED that is set only in\ni40e_vc_get_vf_resources_msg() and cleared during reset."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"171527da84149c2c7aa6a60a64b09d24f3546298","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"185745d56ec958bf8aa773828213237dfcc32f5a"},{"version":"eb87117c27e729b0aeef4d72ed40d6a1761b0f68","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f47876788a23de296c42ef9d505b5c1630f0b4b8"},{"version":"2132643b956f553f5abddc9bae20dae267b082e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e35c80f8570426fe0f0cc92b151ebd835975f22"},{"version":"61125b8be85dfbc7e9c7fe1cc6c6d631ab603516","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c3981fd59ef11a75005ac9978f034da5a168b6a"},{"version":"61125b8be85dfbc7e9c7fe1cc6c6d631ab603516","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e748f1ee493f88e38b77363a60499f979d42c58a"},{"version":"61125b8be85dfbc7e9c7fe1cc6c6d631ab603516","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6128bbc7adc25c87c2f64b5eb66a280b78ef7ab7"},{"version":"61125b8be85dfbc7e9c7fe1cc6c6d631ab603516","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a991dc56d3e9a2c3db87d0c3f03c24f6595400f1"},{"version":"61125b8be85dfbc7e9c7fe1cc6c6d631ab603516","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"877b7e6ffc23766448236e8732254534c518ba42"},{"version":"5.4.165","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.300"},{"version":"5.10.85","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.245"},{"version":"5.15.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.194"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"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":"6.1.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.10","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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