Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.7,6.12.114)[6.13,6.15.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20699733
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed4 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-38187  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.114, 6.15.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the r535_gsp_rpc_push function. An attacker can cause arbitrary physical memory writes, kernel heap disclosure, and system instability by manipulating GPU device operations and power-management transitions to trigger premature freeing and reuse of memory. This can result in firmware hangs, failed resume, and potential system crashes.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1