habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf()
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.
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- Sep 4, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 4th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-416
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Action score
31
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 7.8
- CNA · Linux
- 7.8
- agree
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux kernel | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.12.43
- linux linux kernel6.13 and later · before 6.15.11
- linux linux kernel6.16 and later · before 6.16.2
- linux linux kernel6.17
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Linux Linux
- 5.16affected
- db1a8dd916aac986871f6b873a3aefad906f383a and later · before c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231affected · git
- db1a8dd916aac986871f6b873a3aefad906f383a and later · before 40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fcaffected · git
- db1a8dd916aac986871f6b873a3aefad906f383a and later · before 55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8affected · git
- db1a8dd916aac986871f6b873a3aefad906f383a and later · before 33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811caffected · git
- before 5.16not affected · semver
- 6.12.43 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
- 6.15.11 and later · up to and including 6.15.*not affected · semver
- 6.16.2 and later · up to and including 6.16.*not affected · semver
- 6.17 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | all versions | — |
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.12.43-1 | 6.12.43-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 6.16.3-1 | 6.16.3-1 |
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fc | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 6.12.43-1 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-416 · Use After FreeCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-416 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
free(dev->buf);/* ... another thread is still running ... */process(dev->buf);Fixed
lock(&dev->lock);free(dev->buf);dev->buf = NULL;unlock(&dev->lock);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.