CVE-2025-38175

binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices Commit e77aff5528a18 ("binderfs: fix use-after-free in binder_devices") addressed a use-after-free where devices could be released without first being removed from the binder_devices list. However, there is a similar path in binder_free_proc() that was missed: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binder_remove_device+0xd4/0x100 Write of size 8 at addr ffff0000c773b900 by task umount/467 CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 467 Comm: umount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-00138-g57483a362741 #9 PREEMPT Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: binder_remove_device+0xd4/0x100 binderfs_evict_inode+0x230/0x2f0 evict+0x25c/0x5dc iput+0x304/0x480 dentry_unlink_inode+0x208/0x46c __dentry_kill+0x154/0x530 [...] Allocated by task 463: __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x13c/0x324 binderfs_binder_device_create.isra.0+0x138/0xa60 binder_ctl_ioctl+0x1ac/0x230 [...] Freed by task 215: kfree+0x184/0x31c binder_proc_dec_tmpref+0x33c/0x4ac binder_deferred_func+0xc10/0x1108 process_one_work+0x520/0xba4 [...] ================================================================== Call binder_remove_device() within binder_free_proc() to ensure the device is removed from the binder_devices list before being kfreed.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.14 ≤ v < 6.14.116.14 ≤ v < 6.15.26.14 ≤ v < 6.166.15 ≤ v < 6.15.212d909cac1e1c4147cc3417fee804ee12fc6b9846.14
Vendor states this is fixed in 4a7694f499cae5b83412c5281bf2c961f34f2ed6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 72a726fb5f25fbb31d6060acfb671c1955831245 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9857af0fcff385c75433f2162c30c62eb912ef6d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16 (unaffected)

References (3)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a7694f499cae5b83412c5281bf2c961f34f2ed6
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72a726fb5f25fbb31d6060acfb671c1955831245
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9857af0fcff385c75433f2162c30c62eb912ef6d

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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