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CVE-2025-38410: drm/msm: Fix a fence leak in submit error path

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix a fence leak in submit error path In error paths, we could unref the submit without calling drm_sched_entity_push_job(), so msm_job_free() will never get called. Since drm_sched_job_cleanup() will NULL out the s_fence, we can use that to detect this case. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653584/

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Linux kernel: from 3.12 before 5.15.187; from 5.16 before 6.1.144; from 6.2 before 6.6.97; from 6.7 before 6.12.37; from 6.13 before 6.15.6; 6.16-rc1, 6.16-rc2 — fixed in 5.15.187, 6.1.144, 6.12.37, 6.15.6, 6.6.97

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.187, 6.1.144, 6.12.37, 6.15.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc817f852e5f8ec8501d19ef7dcc01affa181d0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eaa495b3d5710e5ba72051d2e01bb28292c625c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/201eba5c9652a900c0b248070263f9acd3735689
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d319f75ccf7f0927425a7545aa1a22b3eedc189
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5deab0fa6cfd0cd7def17598db15ceb84f950584
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2695b2f63bd77e0e03bc0fc779164115bb4699
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html

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