Vulnerability · Published Sep 4, 2025 · Assigned by Linux
CVE-2025-38703drm/xe: Make dma-fences compliant with the safe access rules
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 7% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Make dma-fences compliant with the safe access rules Xe can free some of the data pointed to by the dma-fences it exports. Most notably the timeline name can get freed if userspace closes the associated submit queue. At the same time the fence could have been exported to a third party (for example a sync_fence fd) which will then cause an use- after-free on subsequent access. To make this safe we need to make the driver compliant with the newly documented dma-fence rules. Driver has to ensure a RCU grace period between signalling a fence and freeing any data pointed to by said fence. For the timeline name we simply make the queue be freed via kfree_rcu and for the shared lock associated with multiple queues we add a RCU grace period before freeing the per GT structure holding the lock.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-devel-matched | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-64k-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | kernel-abi-stablelists | 6.12.0-124.43.1.el10_1 | ALSA-2026:4012 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-abi-stablelists | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-cross-headers | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-devel-matched | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-debug-uki-virt | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-devel-matched | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:10 | kernel-doc | 6.12.0-124.43.1.el10_1 | ALSA-2026:4012 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-doc | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-headers | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-debug | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-debug-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-debug | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-debug-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-debug-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-debug-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-debug-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-rt-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-tools | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-tools-libs | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-tools-libs-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-uki-virt | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-uki-virt-addons | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump-devel | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump-modules | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | libperf | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | perf | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | python3-perf | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | rtla | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | rv | 5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | ALSA-2026:0793 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 6.12.43-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 6.16.3-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Rocky Linux:9 | kernel | 0:5.14.0-611.24.1.el9_7 | RLSA-2026:0793 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux | 6.8.0-100.100 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-allwinner-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-aws | 6.8.0-1046.49 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-aws-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-6.8 | 6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure | 6.8.0-1046.52 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.11 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.8 | 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde | 6.8.0-1046.53 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | linux-azure-fde | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde-6.8 | 6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure-nvidia | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-gcp | 6.8.0-1047.50 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.11 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.8 | 6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-gke | 6.8.0-1043.48 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-gkeop | 6.8.0-1030.33 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.11 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.8 | 6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-ibm | 6.8.0-1044.44 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-ibm-6.8 | 6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-intel | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-intel-iot-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency | 6.8.0-100.100.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 | 6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-nvidia | 6.8.0-1046.49 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-6.11 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-6.8 | 6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-lowlatency | 6.8.0-1046.49.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-tegra | 6.8.0-1020.20 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-5.17 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.0 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.1 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.11 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.8 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-oracle | 6.8.0-1043.44 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-oracle-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oracle-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oracle-6.8 | 6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-raspi | 6.8.0-1047.51 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-raspi-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-riscv | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-riscv-6.14 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv-6.8 | 6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-starfive-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-starfive-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-starfive-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-xilinx | 6.8.0-1023.24 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38703 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 – before b17fcce70733c211cb5dabf54f4f9491920b1d92dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 – before ba37807d08bae67de6139346a85650cab5f6145add08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 – before 683b0e397dad9f26a42dcacf6f7f545a77ce6c06dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 – before 6bd90e700b4285e6a7541e00f969cab0d696adde |
| Linux | Linux | 6.8 |