CVE-2025-38731

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Published 2026-01-26 · Modified 2026-01-30

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Fix vm_bind_ioctl double free bug If the argument check during an array bind fails, the bind_ops are freed twice as seen below. Fix this by setting bind_ops to NULL after freeing. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: double-free in xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x1b2/0x21f0 [xe] Free of addr ffff88813bb9b800 by task xe_vm/14198 CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 14198 Comm: xe_vm Not tainted 6.16.0-xe-eudebug-cmanszew+ #520 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Client Platform/AlderLake-P DDR5 RVP, BIOS ADLPFWI1.R00.2411.A02.2110081023 10/08/2021 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x82/0xd0 print_report+0xcb/0x610 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x19a/0x300 ? xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x1b2/0x21f0 [xe] kasan_report_invalid_free+0xc8/0xf0 ? xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x1b2/0x21f0 [xe] ? xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x1b2/0x21f0 [xe] check_slab_allocation+0x102/0x130 kfree+0x10d/0x440 ? should_fail_ex+0x57/0x2f0 ? xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x1b2/0x21f0 [xe] xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x1b2/0x21f0 [xe] ? __pfx_xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [xe] ? __lock_acquire+0xab9/0x27f0 ? lock_acquire+0x165/0x300 ? drm_dev_enter+0x53/0xe0 [drm] ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80 ? drm_dev_exit+0x30/0x50 [drm] ? drm_ioctl_kernel+0x128/0x1c0 [drm] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x128/0x1c0 [drm] ? __pfx_xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [xe] ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80 ? __pfx_drm_ioctl_kernel+0x10/0x10 [drm] ? should_fail_ex+0x57/0x2f0 ? __pfx_xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [xe] drm_ioctl+0x352/0x620 [drm] ? __pfx_drm_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [drm] ? __pfx_rpm_resume+0x10/0x10 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x11a/0x1b0 ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80 ? __pm_runtime_resume+0x61/0xc0 ? rcu_is_watching+0x20/0x50 ? trace_irq_enable.constprop.0+0xac/0xe0 xe_drm_ioctl+0x91/0xc0 [xe] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xb2/0x100 ? rcu_is_watching+0x20/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x68/0x2e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fa9acb24ded (cherry picked from commit a01b704527c28a2fd43a17a85f8996b75ec8492a)

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description kernel: drm/xe: Fix vm_bind_ioctl double free bug Red Hat statement This vulnerability can in theory be triggered by a non-privileged user as the primary requirements are: 1. Access to GPU devices (usually possible if the user is part of the `video`/`render` groups); 2. The ability to interface with DRM ioctl operations (a standard GPU programming interface available to non-privileged…

Description

kernel: drm/xe: Fix vm_bind_ioctl double free bug

Red Hat statement

This vulnerability can in theory be triggered by a non-privileged user as the primary requirements are: 1. Access to GPU devices (usually possible if the user is part of the `video`/`render` groups); 2. The ability to interface with DRM ioctl operations (a standard GPU programming interface available to non-privileged users); 3. Execute GPU virtual memory operations (creating address spaces and submitting bind operations).

CVSS v3: 7.0 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

Product	Package	Advisory	Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	`kernel-0:6.12.0-124.31.1.el10_1`	RHSA-2026:1690	2026-02-02T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-0:5.14.0-611.26.1.el9_7`	RHSA-2026:1143	2026-01-26T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-0:5.14.0-611.26.1.el9_7`	RHSA-2026:1143	2026-01-26T00:00:00Z

Package state

Product	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`kernel`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`kernel`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`kernel-rt`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`kernel`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`kernel-rt`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-rt`	Affected

Apply commands

bash fix

Apply RHSA-2026:1690 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

yum update -y kernel
# or:
dnf upgrade -y kernel

Affected

Vendor	Product	Version
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`Affected`

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`kernel-64k-debug-devel-5.14.0-611.26.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`6.16.5-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.16.5-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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