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Unreviewed Published Sep 15, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 15, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

drm/tests: helpers: Avoid a driver uaf

when using __drm_kunit_helper_alloc_drm_device() the driver may be
dereferenced by device-managed resources up until the device is
freed, which is typically later than the kunit-managed resource code
frees it. Fix this by simply make the driver device-managed as well.

In short, the sequence leading to the UAF is as follows:

INIT:
Code allocates a struct device as a kunit-managed resource.
Code allocates a drm driver as a kunit-managed resource.
Code allocates a drm device as a device-managed resource.

EXIT:
Kunit resource cleanup frees the drm driver
Kunit resource cleanup puts the struct device, which starts a
device-managed resource cleanup
device-managed cleanup calls drm_dev_put()
drm_dev_put() dereferences the (now freed) drm driver -> Boom.

Related KASAN message:
[55272.551542] ==================================================================
[55272.551551] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551603] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888127502828 by task kunit_try_catch/10353

[55272.551612] CPU: 4 PID: 10353 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G U N 6.5.0-rc7+ #155
[55272.551620] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME B560M-A AC, BIOS 0403 01/26/2021
[55272.551626] Call Trace:
[55272.551629]
[55272.551633] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x90
[55272.551639] print_report+0xcf/0x630
[55272.551645] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x5f/0x70
[55272.551652] ? drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551694] kasan_report+0xd7/0x110
[55272.551699] ? drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551742] drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551783] devres_release_all+0x15d/0x1f0
[55272.551790] ? __pfx_devres_release_all+0x10/0x10
[55272.551797] device_unbind_cleanup+0x16/0x1a0
[55272.551802] device_release_driver_internal+0x3e5/0x540
[55272.551808] ? kobject_put+0x5d/0x4b0
[55272.551814] bus_remove_device+0x1f1/0x3f0
[55272.551819] device_del+0x342/0x910
[55272.551826] ? __pfx_device_del+0x10/0x10
[55272.551830] ? lock_release+0x339/0x5e0
[55272.551836] ? kunit_remove_resource+0x128/0x290 [kunit]
[55272.551845] ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
[55272.551851] platform_device_del.part.0+0x1f/0x1e0
[55272.551856] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x60
[55272.551863] kunit_remove_resource+0x195/0x290 [kunit]
[55272.551871] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x60
[55272.551877] kunit_cleanup+0x78/0x120 [kunit]
[55272.551885] ? __kthread_parkme+0xc1/0x1f0
[55272.551891] ? __pfx_kunit_try_run_case_cleanup+0x10/0x10 [kunit]
[55272.551900] ? __pfx_kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x10/0x10 [kunit]
[55272.551909] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90 [kunit]
[55272.551919] kthread+0x2e7/0x3c0
[55272.551924] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[55272.551929] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[55272.551935] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[55272.551940] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
[55272.551948]

[55272.551953] Allocated by task 10351:
[55272.551956] kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
[55272.551962] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[55272.551966] __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x90
[55272.551970] __kmalloc+0x5e/0x160
[55272.551976] kunit_kmalloc_array+0x1c/0x50 [kunit]
[55272.551984] drm_exec_test_init+0xfa/0x2c0 [drm_exec_test]
[55272.551991] kunit_try_run_case+0xdd/0x250 [kunit]
[55272.551999] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90 [kunit]
[55272.552008] kthread+0x2e7/0x3c0
[55272.552012] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[55272.552017] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

[55272.552024] Freed by task 10353:
[55272.552027] kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
[55272.552032] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[55272.552036] kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40
[55272.552041] __kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x180
[55272.552046] slab_free_freelist_hook+0xb3/0x160
[55272.552051] __kmem_cache_free+0xb2/0x290
[55272.552056] kunit_remove_resource+0x195/0x290 [kunit]
[55272.552064] kunit_cleanup+0x7
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 15, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 15, 2025
Last updated Sep 15, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53235

GHSA ID

GHSA-f58p-2pv4-p2jw

Source code

No known source code

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