CVE-2025-40316

drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind

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Published: December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind A recent change fixed device reference leaks when looking up drm platform device driver data during bind() but failed to remove a partial fix which had been added by commit 80805b62ea5b ("drm/mediatek: Fix kobject put for component sub-drivers"). This results in a reference imbalance on component bind() failures and on unbind() which could lead to a user-after-free. Make sure to only drop the references after retrieving the driver data by effectively reverting the previous partial fix. Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.

Affected

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

6.12.45 ≤ v < 6.12.586.16.5 ≤ v < 6.176.6.105 ≤ v < 6.6.1171f403699c40f0806a707a9a6eed3b8904224021a31ce7c089b50c3d3056c37e0e25e7535e4428ae16.12.456.16.56.176.6.1057d98166183d627c0b9daca7672b2191fae0f8a03fae58d0155a979a8c414bbc12db09dd4b2f910d0
Vendor states this is fixed in 0142fe895986addf35885b43440718e567121155 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8ba827e09eb586e952d10e39406fa02d10bb591e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 926d002e6d7e2f1fd5c1b53cf6208153ee7d380d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a5a896f8315de358a2932e2c23c42d550256046a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.58 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.117 (unaffected)

Remediation

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