CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68207

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the DRM driver for Intel Xe GPUs (drm/xe/guc), a missing synchronization during device unbind allows the Dead CT worker to run after resources are freed, leading to a use-after-free condition.

Risk Assessment

Use-after-free could cause system crashes or potentially allow local privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that cancels and waits for the Dead CT worker to complete before continuing with device unbinding.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/guc: Synchronize Dead CT worker with unbind Cancel and wait for any Dead CT worker to complete before continuing with device unbinding. Else the worker will end up using resources freed by the undind operation. (cherry picked from commit 492671339114e376aaa38626d637a2751cdef263)

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS