CVE-2025-40111

drm/vmwgfx: Fix Use-after-free in validation

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Nov 12, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 1822e5287b7dfa59d0af966756ebf1dc652b60eeAffected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before fb7165e5f3b3b10721ff70553583ad12e90e447aAffected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 4c918f9d1ccccc0e092f43dcb2d8266f54d7340bAffected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 9a8eaca539708ca532747f606d231f70e684e8caAffected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 867bda5d95d36f10da398fd4409e21c7002b2332Affected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 655a2f29bfc21105c80bf8a7d7aafa6eca8b4496Affected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 65608e991c2d771c13404e5c7ae122ac3c3357a4Affected 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before dfe1323ab3c8a4dd5625ebfdba44dc47df84512aAffected
LinuxLinux	4.20Affected before 4.20Not affected 5.4.301 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.246 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.195 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.157 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.113 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.54 through 6.12.Not affected 6.17.4 through 6.17.*Not affected 6.18 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 1822e5287b7dfa59d0af966756ebf1dc652b60eeAffected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before fb7165e5f3b3b10721ff70553583ad12e90e447aAffected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 4c918f9d1ccccc0e092f43dcb2d8266f54d7340bAffected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 9a8eaca539708ca532747f606d231f70e684e8caAffected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 867bda5d95d36f10da398fd4409e21c7002b2332Affected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 655a2f29bfc21105c80bf8a7d7aafa6eca8b4496Affected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before 65608e991c2d771c13404e5c7ae122ac3c3357a4Affected
64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044 to before dfe1323ab3c8a4dd5625ebfdba44dc47df84512aAffected

LinuxLinux

4.20Affected
before 4.20Not affected
5.4.301 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.246 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.195 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.157 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.113 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.54 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.17.4 through 6.17.*Not affected
6.18 and laterNot affected

References

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