CVE-2025-40069 (GCVE-0-2025-40069)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:07
VLAI
Title
drm/msm: Fix obj leak in VM_BIND error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix obj leak in VM_BIND error path If we fail a handle-lookup part way thru, we need to drop the already obtained obj references. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/669784/
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2e6a8a1fe2b262a6dfd0a65041fcd830ee1e7143 , < 2b512909a291a964cfcf6b58de13256ab3e848c4 (git)
Affected: 2e6a8a1fe2b262a6dfd0a65041fcd830ee1e7143 , < 278f8904434aa96055e793936b5977c010549e28 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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