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CVE-2025-39811 (GCVE-0-2025-39811)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 13:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:36
VLAI
Title
drm/xe/vm: Clear the scratch_pt pointer on error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/vm: Clear the scratch_pt pointer on error Avoid triggering a dereference of an error pointer on cleanup in xe_vm_free_scratch() by clearing any scratch_pt error pointer. (cherry picked from commit 358ee50ab565f3c8ea32480e9d03127a81ba32f8)
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 06951c2ee72df2f53b71e7cf2b504d4fa6bba453 , < c8277d229c7840e8090d4704e50f2ca014d194c7 (git)
Affected: 06951c2ee72df2f53b71e7cf2b504d4fa6bba453 , < 84603ed1d73ebb8de856dc11f4f5d3541c48f7a2 (git)
Affected: 06951c2ee72df2f53b71e7cf2b504d4fa6bba453 , < 2b55ddf36229e0278c956215784ab1feeff510aa (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.45 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.5 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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