Vulnerability · Published Jul 4, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-38189drm/v3d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in `v3d_job_update_stats()`

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 91.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/v3d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in `v3d_job_update_stats()` The following kernel Oops was recently reported by Mesa CI: [ 800.139824] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000588 [ 800.148619] Mem abort info: [ 800.151402] ESR = 0x0000000096000005 [ 800.155141] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 800.160444] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 800.163488] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 800.166619] FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault [ 800.171487] Data abort info: [ 800.174357] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000 [ 800.179832] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 [ 800.184873] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 [ 800.190176] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000001014c2000 [ 800.196607] [0000000000000588] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000 [ 800.205305] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 800.211564] Modules linked in: vc4 snd_soc_hdmi_codec drm_display_helper v3d cec gpu_sched drm_dma_helper drm_shmem_helper drm_kms_helper drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm i2c_brcmstb snd_timer snd backlight [ 800.234448] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 Debian 1:6.12.25-1+rpt1 [ 800.244182] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 (DT) [ 800.250005] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 800.256959] pc : v3d_job_update_stats+0x60/0x130 [v3d] [ 800.262112] lr : v3d_job_update_stats+0x48/0x130 [v3d] [ 800.267251] sp : ffffffc080003e60 [ 800.270555] x29: ffffffc080003e60 x28: ffffffd842784980 x27: 0224012000000000 [ 800.277687] x26: ffffffd84277f630 x25: ffffff81012fd800 x24: 0000000000000020 [ 800.284818] x23: ffffff8040238b08 x22: 0000000000000570 x21: 0000000000000158 [ 800.291948] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffff8040238000 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 800.299078] x17: ffffffa8c1bd2000 x16: ffffffc080000000 x15: 0000000000000000 [ 800.306208] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 800.313338] x11: 0000000000000040 x10: 0000000000001a40 x9 : ffffffd83b39757c [ 800.320468] x8 : ffffffd842786420 x7 : 7fffffffffffffff x6 : 0000000000ef32b0 [ 800.327598] x5 : 00ffffffffffffff x4 : 0000000000000015 x3 : ffffffd842784980 [ 800.334728] x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000010002 x0 : 000000ba4c0ca382 [ 800.341859] Call trace: [ 800.344294] v3d_job_update_stats+0x60/0x130 [v3d] [ 800.349086] v3d_irq+0x124/0x2e0 [v3d] [ 800.352835] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x58/0x218 [ 800.357539] handle_irq_event+0x54/0xb8 [ 800.361369] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xac/0x240 [ 800.365458] handle_irq_desc+0x48/0x68 [ 800.369200] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x24/0x38 [ 800.373810] gic_handle_irq+0x48/0xd8 [ 800.377464] call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x58 [ 800.381379] do_interrupt_handler+0x88/0x98 [ 800.385554] el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68 [ 800.389123] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28 [ 800.393211] el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68 [ 800.396603] default_idle_call+0x3c/0x168 [ 800.400606] do_idle+0x1fc/0x230 [ 800.403827] cpu_startup_entry+0x40/0x50 [ 800.407742] rest_init+0xe4/0xf0 [ 800.410962] start_kernel+0x5e8/0x790 [ 800.414616] __primary_switched+0x80/0x90 [ 800.418622] Code: 8b170277 8b160296 11000421 b9000861 (b9401ac1) [ 800.424707] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 800.457313] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt ]--- This issue happens when the file descriptor is closed before the jobs submitted by it are completed. When the job completes, we update the global GPU stats and the per-fd GPU stats, which are exposed through fdinfo. If the file descriptor was closed, then the struct `v3d_file_priv` and its stats were already freed and we can't update the per-fd stats. Therefore, if the file descriptor was already closed, don't u ---truncated---

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.35-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38189
Debian:14linux6.12.35-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.146.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.146.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1USN-7833-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.146.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1USN-7834-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.146.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.146.14.0-1007.7USN-7834-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.146.14.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.146.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.146.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1USN-7833-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.146.14.0-34.34~24.04.1USN-7856-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.146.14.0-1014.14USN-7833-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.146.14.0-1014.14UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.146.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1USN-7833-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.146.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.146.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-vmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38189

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 09a93cc4f7d1893777f6b788bffe60d64e4d5df7 – before c886784000934d5486621106da0614c85bcd76a809a93cc4f7d1893777f6b788bffe60d64e4d5df7 – before 4f4701489d0f768a232b10d281491184f34bacf009a93cc4f7d1893777f6b788bffe60d64e4d5df7 – before e1bc3a13bd775791cca0bb144d977b00f3598042
Linux Linux 6.8

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