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  "id": "RPI-CVE-2025-38595",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-38595"
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  "published": "2025-08-19T17:19:12Z",
  "summary": "xen: fix UAF in dmabuf_exp_from_pages()",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxen: fix UAF in dmabuf_exp_from_pages()\n\n[dma_buf_fd() fixes; no preferences regarding the tree it goes through -\nup to xen folks]\n\nAs soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another\nthread could close it.  That's fine for the case when all we are doing is\nreturning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland\nrace and there's nothing the kernel can do about it).  However, if we\nfollow fd_install() with any kind of access to objects that would be\ndestroyed on close (be it the struct file itself or anything destroyed\nby its ->release()), we have a UAF.\n\ndma_buf_fd() is a combination of reserving a descriptor and fd_install().\ngntdev dmabuf_exp_from_pages() calls it and then proceeds to access the\nobjects destroyed on close - starting with gntdev_dmabuf itself.\n\nFix that by doing reserving descriptor before anything else and do\nfd_install() only when everything had been set up.",
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        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
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    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38595"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5907885260401bba300d4d18d79875c05b82651"
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      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3edfd2353f301bfffd5ee41066e37320a59ccc2d"
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    "upstream_modified": "2026-08-05T12:19:11Z"
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