CVE-2025-38722: Linux kernel · habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf()
Affects Linux kernelSource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High · fixed in d26058c2349d77d1ef179a2cc9752ca12004b6ff : patch Linux kernel soon.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 9% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in d26058c2349d77d1ef179a2cc9752ca12004b6ff, c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231, 33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c +2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Sep 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.
What to do
Upgrade to a fixed release listed under Affected software.
Affected software
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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.
References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d26058c2349d77d1ef179a2cc9752ca12004b6ff (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fc (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c (opens in a new tab)