CVE-2025-40340 Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.28.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELMACROS-15142003
  • published29 Jan 2026
  • disclosed28 Jan 2026

Introduced: 28 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-40340  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-macros to version 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/xe: Fix oops in xe_gem_fault when running core_hotunplug test.

I saw an oops in xe_gem_fault when running the xe-fast-feedback testlist against the realtime kernel without debug options enabled.

The panic happens after core_hotunplug unbind-rebind finishes. Presumably what happens is that a process mmaps, unlocks because of the FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT logic, has no process memory left, causing ttm_bo_vm_dummy_page() to return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, since there was nothing left to populate, and then oopses in "mem_type_is_vram(tbo->resource->mem_type)" because tbo->resource is NULL.

It's convoluted, but fits the data and explains the oops after the test exits.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1