# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40091"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-30T09:47:59.253Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:42:20.367Z"
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-2025-40091"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40091.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40091"
title: "ixgbe: fix too early devlink_free() in ixgbe_remove()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nixgbe: fix too early devlink_free() in ixgbe_remove()\n\nSince ixgbe_adapter is embedded in devlink, calling devlink_free()\nprematurely in the ixgbe_remove() path can lead to UAF. Move devlink_free()\nto the end.\n\nKASAN report:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ixgbe_reset_interrupt_capability+0x140/0x180 [ixgbe]\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000adf813e0 by task bash/2095\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2095 Comm: bash Tainted: G S  6.17.0-rc2-tnguy.net-queue+ #1 PREEMPT(full)\n [...]\n Call trace:\n  show_stack+0x30/0x90 (C)\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd0\n  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x90/0x310\n  print_report+0x104/0x1f0\n  kasan_report+0x88/0x180\n  __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30\n  ixgbe_reset_interrupt_capability+0x140/0x180 [ixgbe]\n  ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme+0xf8/0x130 [ixgbe]\n  ixgbe_remove+0x2d0/0x8c0 [ixgbe]\n  pci_device_remove+0xa0/0x220\n  device_remove+0xb8/0x170\n  device_release_driver_internal+0x318/0x490\n  device_driver_detach+0x40/0x68\n  unbind_store+0xec/0x118\n  drv_attr_store+0x64/0xb8\n  sysfs_kf_write+0xcc/0x138\n  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x294/0x440\n  new_sync_write+0x1fc/0x588\n  vfs_write+0x480/0x6a0\n  ksys_write+0xf0/0x1e0\n  __arm64_sys_write+0x70/0xc0\n  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xcc/0x280\n  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xa8/0x248\n  do_el0_svc+0x44/0x68\n  el0_svc+0x54/0x160\n  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8\n  el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a0285236ab93fdfdd1008afaa04561d142d6c276","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df445969aa727cd64f3f29dc1f85fb60aca238d1"},{"version":"a0285236ab93fdfdd1008afaa04561d142d6c276","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5feef67b646d8f5064bac288e22204ffba2b9a4a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.17.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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