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GHSA-WPX2-5M46-33QP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-23 06:30 – Updated: 2025-12-12 21:31

Details

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

drm/mediatek: fix potential OF node use-after-free

The for_each_child_of_node() helper drops the reference it takes to each node as it iterates over children and an explicit of_node_put() is only needed when exiting the loop early.

Drop the recently introduced bogus additional reference count decrement at each iteration that could potentially lead to a use-after-free.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-39882 (GCVE-0-2025-39882)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-23 06:00 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:05

Title

drm/mediatek: fix potential OF node use-after-free

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: fix potential OF node use-after-free The for_each_child_of_node() helper drops the reference it takes to each node as it iterates over children and an explicit of_node_put() is only needed when exiting the loop early. Drop the recently introduced bogus additional reference count decrement at each iteration that could potentially lead to a use-after-free.

Severity

8.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-14 19:25 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2fbe0f9f80b9cfa1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b58a26cdd4795c1ce…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4901802ed1ce8592…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4de37a48b6b58faad…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7d98166183d627c0b9daca7672b2191fae0f8a03 , < b2fbe0f9f80b9cfa1e06ddcf8b863d918394ef1d (git) Affected: 31ce7c089b50c3d3056c37e0e25e7535e4428ae1 , < b58a26cdd4795c1ce6a80e38e9348885555dacd6 (git) Affected: fae58d0155a979a8c414bbc12db09dd4b2f910d0 , < c4901802ed1ce859242e10af06e6a7752cba0497 (git) Affected: 1f403699c40f0806a707a9a6eed3b8904224021a , < 4de37a48b6b58faaded9eb765047cf0d8785ea18 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.6.105 , < 6.6.107 (semver) Affected: 6.12.45 , < 6.12.48 (semver) Affected: 6.16.5 , < 6.16.8 (semver)

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