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CVE-2025-38011

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-06-18
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 6.12.30 / 6.14.8 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: csa unmap use uninterruptible lock After process exit to unmap csa and free GPU vm, if signal is accepted and then waiting to take vm lock is interrupted and return, it causes memory leaking and below warning backtrace. Change to use uninterruptible wait lock fix the issue. WARNING: CPU: 69 PID: 167800 at amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c:1525 amdgpu_driver_postclose_kms+0x294/0x2a0 [amdgpu] Call Trace: <TASK> drm_file_free.part.0+0x1da/0x230 [drm] drm_close_helper.isra.0+0x65/0x70 [drm] drm_release+0x6a/0x120 [drm] amdgpu_drm_release+0x51/0x60 [amdgpu] __fput+0x9f/0x280 ____fput+0xe/0x20 task_work_run+0x67/0xa0 do_exit+0x217/0x3c0 do_group_exit+0x3b/0xb0 get_signal+0x14a/0x8d0 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xde/0x100 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xc1/0x1a0 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf4/0x100 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40 do_syscall_64+0x69/0xc0 (cherry picked from commit 7dbbfb3c171a6f63b01165958629c9c26abf38ab)

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-401

Allocated memory is never released on some path, so a long-running service or a repeatedly triggered request steadily consumes memory until performance degrades or the process crashes. Attackers exploit it by simply driving the leaking path. Remediation is pairing every allocation with a release and using ownership patterns or tooling to catch what leaks.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 6.6, < 6.12.30>= 6.13, < 6.14.8= 6.15

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 6.12.30 / 6.14.8 or later
Fixed in 6.12.306.14.8
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Linux Kernel 6.12.30, 6.14.8, or later stable releases

  1. 1. Identify the current running kernel version using `uname -r`
  2. 2. For systems running kernel 6.6.x through 6.12.x: plan upgrade to kernel version 6.12.30 or later
  3. 3. For systems running kernel 6.13.x through 6.14.x: plan upgrade to kernel version 6.14.8 or later
  4. 4. For systems running kernel 6.15.x: upgrade to the latest 6.15.y patch release that includes the fix (check distribution vendor kernel changelog)
  5. 5. After kernel upgrade, reboot the system to load the fixed kernel
  6. 6. Verify the fix is applied by checking the kernel version matches or exceeds the fixed releases listed above
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require driver recompilation or system reboot; ensure compatibility with system hardware and other kernel modules

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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