CVE-2025-40037 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
3.2LOWOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 28
Latest updateApr 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()
The pm_domain cleanup can not be devres managed as it uses struct
simplefb_par which is allocated within struct fb_info by
framebuffer_alloc(). This allocation is explicitly freed by
unregister_framebuffer() in simplefb_remove().
Devres managed cleanup runs after the device remove call and thus can no
longer access struct simplefb_par.
Call simplefb_detach_genpds(…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d — b1deb39cfd614fb2f278b71011692a8dbf0f05ba+3