CVE-2025-40111Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416Use After Free55 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV5.5OSV3.2
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 87.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 12
Latest updateApr 13

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix Use-after-free in validation Nodes stored in the validation duplicates hashtable come from an arena allocator that is cleared at the end of vmw_execbuf_process. All nodes are expected to be cleared in vmw_validation_drop_ht but this node escaped because its resource was destroyed prematurely.

Affected Packages7 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel4.20.05.4.301+6
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.247-1+3
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.15.0-170.180+2
CVEListV5linux/linux64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef76820441822e5287b7dfa59d0af966756ebf1dc652b60ee+8

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