CVE-2025-38722

habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf()

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 4, 2025 at 03:33 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:18 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: habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf() As soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another thread could close it. That's fine for the case when all we are doing is returning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland race and there's nothing the kernel can do about it). However, if we follow fd_install() with any kind of access to objects that would be destroyed on close (be it the struct file itself or anything destroyed by its ->release()), we have a UAF. dma_buf_fd() is a combination of reserving a descriptor and fd_install(). habanalabs export_dmabuf() calls it and then proceeds to access the objects destroyed on close. In particular, it grabs an extra reference to another struct file that will be dropped as part of ->release() for ours; that "will be" is actually "might have already been". Fix that by reserving descriptor before anything else and do fd_install() only when everything had been set up. As a side benefit, we no longer have the failure exit with file already created, but reference to underlying file (as well as ->dmabuf_export_cnt, etc.) not grabbed yet; unlike dma_buf_fd(), fd_install() can't fail.

Affected

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

5.16 ≤ v < 6.12.436.13 ≤ v < 6.15.116.16 ≤ v < 6.16.26.176.17 rc1db1a8dd916aac986871f6b873a3aefad906f383a
Vendor states this is fixed in 33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.43 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)

References (5)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fc
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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