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CVE-2025-38187 (GCVE-0-2025-38187)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:00
VLAI
Title
drm/nouveau: fix a use-after-free in r535_gsp_rpc_push()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix a use-after-free in r535_gsp_rpc_push() The RPC container is released after being passed to r535_gsp_rpc_send(). When sending the initial fragment of a large RPC and passing the caller's RPC container, the container will be freed prematurely. Subsequent attempts to send remaining fragments will therefore result in a use-after-free. Allocate a temporary RPC container for holding the initial fragment of a large RPC when sending. Free the caller's container when all fragments are successfully sent. [ Rebase onto Blackwell changes. - Danilo ]
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 176fdcbddfd288408ce8571c1760ad618d962096 , < cd4677407c0ee250fc21e36439c8a442ddd62cc1 (git)
Affected: 176fdcbddfd288408ce8571c1760ad618d962096 , < 9802f0a63b641f4cddb2139c814c2e95cb825099 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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