CVE-2025-68170

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No network or adjacent-network input reaches it.\nAC:L - This is a deterministic double free, not a race \u2014 once `radeon_driver_unload_kms()` runs, `kfree(rdev)` always precedes the devres/drm-managed release of the same allocation, and the subsequent UAF dereferences in `drm_dev_unregister()`/`drm_dev_release()` occur unconditionally. Slab reclaim of the freed container is groomable by the attacker with ordinary allocation pressure.\nPR:L - Consistent with how this CNA scores probe/remove-path devres-lifetime corruption, an unprivileged local user is the one who weaponizes it: the primary and render minors are still registered when `kfree(rdev)` runs, so a low-privileged process holding an open `/dev/dri/renderD128` (world-accessible on essentially all distros and on Android) can spray the freed container and drive ioctls against the freed `drm_device` while a routine removal event \u2014 eGPU/Thunderbolt unplug, PCI hot-remove, VM reboot, or boot-time probe failure \u2014 supplies the trigger.\nUI:N - No action by a separate victim user is needed; the boot-time probe-failure path and the in-VM `radeon_pci_shutdown()` \u2192 `radeon_pci_remove()` path fire as part of normal system operation, and the attacker's spray/exploit steps require no interaction.\nS:U - The corruption is confined to the kernel's own slab allocator and DRM device state, within the same security authority; no hypervisor, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - After the free, `drm_minor_unregister()` and `drm_managed_release()` re-read `dev->primary`, `dev->render`, `dev->accel` and the `dev->managed.resources` list out of the freed allocation, and open render-node fds still dereference the freed `drm_device`/`rdev`; an attacker who reclaims the slab gets a use-after-free read primitive usable for kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - `drm_managed_release()` performs an indirect call through `dr->node.release()` read from freed memory, and `drm_dev_release()` then does `kfree(dev->managed.final_kfree)` on a pointer read from freed memory \u2014 a control-flow hijack plus arbitrary/double-free primitive, compounded by the `kref_put()` write into freed memory.\nA:H - Even unexploited, the path guarantees a `refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free` WARN, a SLUB double-free BUG, and oopses in `drm_minor_unregister()`/`device_del()` on freed pointers, crashing the kernel."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kms.c"], "versions": [{"version": "a9ed2f052c5c14e4be58c5ec8794dffc87588123", "lessThan": "f7482516002a11317912e29577bbf33cf59a0fb1", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a9ed2f052c5c14e4be58c5ec8794dffc87588123", "lessThan": "2413bbd1d692aed245c2aa38a369a1fa7590db84", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a9ed2f052c5c14e4be58c5ec8794dffc87588123", "lessThan": "3328443363a0895fd9c096edfe8ecd372ca9145e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kms.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.12", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.12", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.58", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.17.8", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.17.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.58"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.17.8"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7482516002a11317912e29577bbf33cf59a0fb1"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2413bbd1d692aed245c2aa38a369a1fa7590db84"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3328443363a0895fd9c096edfe8ecd372ca9145e"}], "title": "drm/radeon: Do not kfree() devres managed rdev", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}, "adp": [{"metrics": [{"other": {"type": "ssvc", "content": {"id": "CVE-2025-68170", "role": "CISA Coordinator", "options": [{"Exploitation": "none"}, {"Automatable": "no"}, {"Technical Impact": "total"}], "version": "2.0.3", "timestamp": "2026-10-15T21:59:43.761321Z"}}}], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-15T22:02:46.741Z"}}]}}

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