CVE-2025-38722

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.16-6.12.43, 6.13-6.15.11, 6.16-6.16.2 - Use-After-Free in habanalabs export_dmabuf

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf() As soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another thread could close it. That's fine for the case when all we are doing is returning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland race and there's nothing the kernel can do about it). However, if we follow fd_install() with any kind of access to objects that would be destroyed on close (be it the struct file itself or anything destroyed by its ->release()), we have a UAF. dma_buf_fd() is a combination of reserving a descriptor and fd_install(). habanalabs export_dmabuf() calls it and then proceeds to access the objects destroyed on close. In particular, it grabs an extra reference to another struct file that will be dropped as part of ->release() for ours; that "will be" is actually "might have already been". Fix that by reserving descriptor before anything else and do fd_install() only when everything had been set up. As a side benefit, we no longer have the failure exit with file already created, but reference to underlying file (as well as ->dmabuf_export_cnt, etc.) not grabbed yet; unlike dma_buf_fd(), fd_install() can't fail.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.12.43linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.16.2linux
Linux/Linux < 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 6.12.43 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.15.11 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.2 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux db1a8dd916aac986871f6b873a3aefad906f383a - 33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c
... and 5 more
Published Sep 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026