CVE-2025-40086 — Expired Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 30
Latest updateFeb 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe: Don't allow evicting of BOs in same VM in array of VM binds
An array of VM binds can potentially evict other buffer objects (BOs)
within the same VM under certain conditions, which may lead to NULL
pointer dereferences later in the bind pipeline. To prevent this, clear
the allow_res_evict flag in the xe_bo_validate call.
v2:
- Invert polarity of no_res_evict (Thomas)
- Add comment in code explaining issue (Thomas)
(c…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxdd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 — 5aa0ab0ba7d94549cfe17d6ef7a4f33ba1de8384+2