CVE-2025-40316 | drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind

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.

Published: 2025-12-08 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40316 is rated Low Risk (3.6/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). 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-2025-40316

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-08 0.02%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40316

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40316

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40316

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-40316 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40316
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40316
suse medium CVE-2025-40316 severity moderate: SUSE including 471 source package names (13.2-9.1:libsystemd0-254.23-1.1, 13.2-9.1:libudev1-254.23-1.1, …), 1109 product×package rows across 199 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (199 product lines)): Fixed 643, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 210, First Fixed 25. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40316/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40316 medium 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 172, not-affected 124, released 97, needed 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40316

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40316

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References for CVE-2025-40316

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