CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38596

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the panthor DRM graphics driver in the Linux kernel, there is a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in panthor_gem_create_with_handle() debugfs code. The object may be freed before initialization completes, leading to access to freed memory.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash or potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel context if an attacker can trigger appropriate debugfs operations.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing a fix that adds the object to debugfs only after full initialization.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/panthor: Fix UAF in panthor_gem_create_with_handle() debugfs code The object is potentially already gone after the drm_gem_object_put(). In general the object should be fully constructed before calling drm_gem_handle_create(), except the debugfs tracking uses a separate lock and list and separate flag to denotate whether the object is actually initialized. Since I'm touching this all anyway simplify this by only adding the object to the debugfs when it's ready for that, which allows us to delete that separate flag. panthor_gem_debugfs_bo_rm() already checks whether we've actually been added to the list or this is some error path cleanup. v2: Fix build issues for !CONFIG_DEBUGFS (Adrián) v3: Add linebreak and remove outdated comment (Liviu)

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