CVE-2025-40316 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-40316

drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
7d98166183d627c0b9daca7672b2191fae0f8a03, 31ce7c089b50c3d3056c37e0e25e7535e4428ae1, 1f403699c40f0806a707a9a6eed3b8904224021a, fae58d0155a979a8c414bbc12db09dd4b2f910d0, 6.6.105, 6.12.45, 6.16.5, 6.17, 0, 6.6.117, 6.12.58, 6.17.8, 6.18

Timeline

Official Publish: December 8th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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