CVE-2025-39973 — Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV5.5OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 81.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 15
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i40e: add validation for ring_len param
The `ring_len` parameter provided by the virtual function (VF)
is assigned directly to the hardware memory context (HMC) without
any validation.
To address this, introduce an upper boundary check for both Tx and Rx
queue lengths. The maximum number of descriptors supported by the
hardware is 8k-32.
Additionally, enforce alignment constraints: Tx rings must be a multiple
of 8, and Rx rin…