CVE-2025-40028

binder: fix double-free in dbitmap

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 28, 2025 at 09:32 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:10 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 double-free in dbitmap A process might fail to allocate a new bitmap when trying to expand its proc->dmap. In that case, dbitmap_grow() fails and frees the old bitmap via dbitmap_free(). However, the driver calls dbitmap_free() again when the same process terminates, leading to a double-free error: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: double-free in binder_proc_dec_tmpref+0x2e0/0x55c Free of addr ffff00000b7c1420 by task kworker/9:1/209 CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 209 Comm: kworker/9:1 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6-dirty #5 PREEMPT Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Workqueue: events binder_deferred_func Call trace: kfree+0x164/0x31c binder_proc_dec_tmpref+0x2e0/0x55c binder_deferred_func+0xc24/0x1120 process_one_work+0x520/0xba4 [...] Allocated by task 448: __kmalloc_noprof+0x178/0x3c0 bitmap_zalloc+0x24/0x30 binder_open+0x14c/0xc10 [...] Freed by task 449: kfree+0x184/0x31c binder_inc_ref_for_node+0xb44/0xe44 binder_transaction+0x29b4/0x7fbc binder_thread_write+0x1708/0x442c binder_ioctl+0x1b50/0x2900 [...] ================================================================== Fix this issue by marking proc->map NULL in dbitmap_free().

Affected

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

15d9da3f818cae676f822a04407d3c17b53357d26.11
Vendor states this is fixed in 0390633979969c54c0ce6a198d6f45cdbe2c84b1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3ebcd3460cad351f198c39c6edb4af519a0ed934 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b781e5635a3398e2b64440371233c2c5102cd6cb (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c301ec61ce6f16e21a36b99225ca8a20c1591e10 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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