CVE-2025-39968 | i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters There is no check for max filters that VF can request. Add it.

Published: 2025-10-15 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-39968 is rated Low Risk (9.2/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.19%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-39968

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.06% 0.19% +0.14%
2 2026-03-25 0.04% 0.06% +0.01%
3 2026-03-13 0.04%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-39968

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-39968

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-39968

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-39968 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (linux, linux-6.1), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-39968
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-39968
suse low CVE-2025-39968 severity low: SUSE including 564 source package names (13.2-6.19:libjitterentropy3-3.4.1-3.1, 13.2-6.19:libopenssl3-3.1.4-6.1, …), 1468 product×package rows across 322 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (322 product lines)): Fixed 1166, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 50, First Fixed 21. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-39968/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-39968 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 177, released 153, not-affected 32, needed 28, pending 3, needs-triage 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39968

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-39968

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 5.4.300 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 5.10.245 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 5.15.194 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 6.1.155 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 6.6.109 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 6.12.50 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 6.16.10 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 4.17, < 6.17 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-39968

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