CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40316
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind
A recent change fixed device reference leaks when looking up drm
platform device driver data during bind() but failed to remove a partial
fix which had been added by commit 80805b62ea5b ("drm/mediatek: Fix
kobject put for component sub-drivers").
This results in a reference imbalance on component bind() failures and
on unbind() which could lead to a user-after-free.
Make sure to only drop the references after retrieving the driver data
by effectively reverting the previous partial fix.
Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0142fe895986addf35885b43440718e567121155 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ba827e09eb586e952d10e39406fa02d10bb591e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/926d002e6d7e2f1fd5c1b53cf6208153ee7d380d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5a896f8315de358a2932e2c23c42d550256046a git.kernel.org