{"id":"CVE-2025-39814","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-39814","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:47:37.567Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_unplug_aux_dev() on reset Issuing a reset when the driver is loaded without RDMA support, will results in a crash as it attempts to remove…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_unplug_aux_dev() on reset\n\nIssuing a reset when the driver is loaded without RDMA support, will\nresults in a crash as it attempts to remove RDMA's non-existent auxbus\ndevice:\necho 1 > /sys/class/net/<if>/device/reset\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n...\nRIP: 0010:ice_unplug_aux_dev+0x29/0x70 [ice]\n...\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\nice_prepare_for_reset+0x77/0x260 [ice]\npci_dev_save_and_disable+0x2c/0x70\npci_reset_function+0x88/0x130\nreset_store+0x5a/0xa0\nkernfs_fop_write_iter+0x15e/0x210\nvfs_write+0x273/0x520\nksys_write+0x6b/0xe0\ndo_syscall_64+0x79/0x3b0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nice_unplug_aux_dev() checks pf->cdev_info->adev for NULL pointer, but\npf->cdev_info will also be NULL, leading to the deref in the trace above.\n\nIntroduce a flag to be set when the creation of the auxbus device is\nsuccessful, to avoid multiple NULL pointer checks in ice_unplug_aux_dev().","published":"2025-09-16T13:15:56.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0013,"percentile":0.02638,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60dfe2434eed13082f26eb7409665dfafb38fa51","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db783756a7d7cfaea039411971d0dc0a374e85cb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39814","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}