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CVE-2025-40289 (GCVE-0-2025-40289)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-06 21:51 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:46
VLAI
Title
drm/amdgpu: hide VRAM sysfs attributes on GPUs without VRAM
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: hide VRAM sysfs attributes on GPUs without VRAM Otherwise accessing them can cause a crash.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21 , < 39a1c8c860e32d775f29917939e87b6a7c08ebb1 (git)
Affected: d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21 , < a67a9f99ce1306898d7129a199d42876bc06a0f0 (git)
Affected: d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21 , < 33cc891b56b93cad1a83263eaf2e417436f70c82 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.59 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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