CVE-2025-40096 | drm/sched: Fix potential double free in drm_sched_job_add_resv_dependencies

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sched: Fix potential double free in drm_sched_job_add_resv_dependencies When adding dependencies with drm_sched_job_add_dependency(), that function consumes the fence reference both on success and failure, so in the latter case the dma_fence_put() on the error path (xarray failed to expand) is a double free. Interestingly this bug appears to have been present ever since commit ebd5f74255b9 ("drm/sched: Add dependency tracking"), since the code back then looked like this: drm_sched_job_add_implicit_dependencies(): ... for (i = 0; i < fence_count; i++) { ret = drm_sched_job_add_dependency(job, fences[i]); if (ret) break; } for (; i < fence_count; i++) dma_fence_put(fences[i]); Which means for the failing 'i' the dma_fence_put was already a double free. Possibly there were no users at that time, or the test cases were insufficient to hit it. The bug was then only noticed and fixed after commit 9c2ba265352a ("drm/scheduler: use new iterator in drm_sched_job_add_implicit_dependencies v2") landed, with its fixup of commit 4eaf02d6076c ("drm/scheduler: fix drm_sched_job_add_implicit_dependencies"). At that point it was a slightly different flavour of a double free, which commit 963d0b356935 ("drm/scheduler: fix drm_sched_job_add_implicit_dependencies harder") noticed and attempted to fix. But it only moved the double free from happening inside the drm_sched_job_add_dependency(), when releasing the reference not yet obtained, to the caller, when releasing the reference already released by the former in the failure case. As such it is not easy to identify the right target for the fixes tag so lets keep it simple and just continue the chain. While fixing we also improve the comment and explain the reason for taking the reference and not dropping it.

Published: 2025-10-30 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40096 is rated Low Risk (5.9/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.16%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-40096

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.06% 0.16% +0.11%
2 2026-04-09 0.04% 0.06% +0.01%
3 2026-03-28 0.04%

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40096

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40096

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debian unimportant CVE-2025-40096 unimportant priority: Debian including 2 source packages (linux, linux-6.1), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40096
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40096
suse medium CVE-2025-40096 severity moderate: SUSE including 548 source package names (13.2-6.19:libjitterentropy3-3.4.1-3.1, 13.2-6.19:libopenssl3-3.1.4-6.1, …), 1133 product×package rows across 221 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (221 product lines)): Fixed 737, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 144, First Fixed 21. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40096/
ubuntu low CVE-2025-40096 low priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 177, released 127, not-affected 82, needed 7, pending 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40096

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40096

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References for CVE-2025-40096

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