CVE-2025-71301

CVE-2025-71301

Medium · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/tests: shmem: Hold reservation lock around vmap/vunmap

Acquire and release the GEM object's reservation lock around vmap and

vunmap operations. The tests use vmap_locked, which led to errors such

as show below.

[ 122.292030] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1413 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:390 drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked+0x3a3/0x6f0

[ 122.468066] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1413 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:293 drm_gem_shmem_pin_locked+0x1fe/0x350

[ 122.563504] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1413 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:234 drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_locked+0x23c/0x370

[ 122.662248] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1413 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:452 drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked+0x101/0x330

Only export the new vmap/vunmap helpers for Kunit tests. These are

not interfaces for regular drivers.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00121 · 1.8th percentile
Published
2026-05-08T18:16Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.18.166.18.16
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.66.19.6
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 13:15Z
    drm/tests: shmem: Hold reservation lock around vmap/vunmap
    cvelistv5