CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38703

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 DRM/Xe driver in the Linux kernel, a vulnerability allows dma-fences to point to data that is freed before an RCU grace period, leading to use-after-free on external access.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to access already freed memory, potentially leading to system crashes (DoS) or arbitrary code execution.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that ensures data pointed to by dma-fences is freed only after an RCU grace period, e.g., by using kfree_rcu.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Make dma-fences compliant with the safe access rules Xe can free some of the data pointed to by the dma-fences it exports. Most notably the timeline name can get freed if userspace closes the associated submit queue. At the same time the fence could have been exported to a third party (for example a sync_fence fd) which will then cause an use- after-free on subsequent access. To make this safe we need to make the driver compliant with the newly documented dma-fence rules. Driver has to ensure a RCU grace period between signalling a fence and freeing any data pointed to by said fence. For the timeline name we simply make the queue be freed via kfree_rcu and for the shared lock associated with multiple queues we add a RCU grace period before freeing the per GT structure holding the lock.

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