# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40252"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:14.393Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:41.799Z"
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-2025-40252"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40252.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40252"
title: "net: qlogic/qede: fix potential out-of-bounds read in qede_tpa_cont() and qede_tpa_end()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: qlogic/qede: fix potential out-of-bounds read in qede_tpa_cont() and qede_tpa_end()\n\nThe loops in 'qede_tpa_cont()' and 'qede_tpa_end()', iterate\nover 'cqe-\u003elen_list[]' using only a zero-length terminator as\nthe stopping condition. If the terminator was missing or\nmalformed, the loop could run past the end of the fixed-size array.\n\nAdd an explicit bound check using ARRAY_SIZE() in both loops to prevent\na potential out-of-bounds access.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE."
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