CVE-2025-38722CWE-416

CVE-2025-38722

High · published September 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00156 · 4.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2025-09-04T20:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.12.436.12.43
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.116.15.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.26.16.2
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 SEP 15:33Z
    habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf()
    cvelistv5