# CVE-2025-37765: drm/nouveau: prime: fix ttm_bo_delayed_delete oops

> A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's nouveau driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash via a general protection fault.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 1 May 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-37765, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37765, GHSA-v46c-rcr5-cw3j, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-37765, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-37765, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37765, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37765

## What is CVE-2025-37765?

CVE-2025-37765 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

drm/nouveau: prime: fix ttm_bo_delayed_delete oops

Fix an oops in ttm_bo_delayed_delete which results from dererencing a
dangling pointer:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b7b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1082 Comm: kworker/u65:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-00267-g505460b44513-dirty #216
Hardware name: LENOVO 82N6/LNVNB161216, BIOS GKCN65WW 01/16/2024
Workqueue: ttm ttm_bo_delayed_delete [ttm]
RIP: 0010:dma_resv_iter_first_unlocked+0x55/0x290
Code: 31 f6 48 c7 c7 00 2b fa aa e8 97 bd 52 ff e8 a2 c1 53 00 5a 85 c0 74 48 e9 88 01 00 00 4c 89 63 20 4d 85 e4 0f 84 30 01 00 00 <41> 8b 44 24 10 c6 43 2c 01 48 89 df 89 43 28 e8 97 fd ff ff 4c 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffbf9383473d60 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffbf9383473d88 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffbf9383473d78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
R13: ffffa003bbf78580 R14: ffffa003a6728040 R15: 00000000000383cc
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa00991c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000758348024dd0 CR3: 000000012c259000 CR4: 0000000000f50ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x26
 ? die_addr+0x3d/0x70
 ? exc_general_protection+0x159/0x460
 ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x27/0x30
 ? dma_resv_iter_first_unlocked+0x55/0x290
 dma_resv_wait_timeout+0x56/0x100
 ttm_bo_delayed_delete+0x69/0xb0 [ttm]
 process_one_work+0x217/0x5c0
 worker_thread+0x1c8/0x3d0
 ? apply_wqattrs_cleanup.part.0+0xc0/0xc0
 kthread+0x10b/0x240
 ? kthreads_online_cpu+0x140/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x40/0x70
 ? kthreads_online_cpu+0x140/0x140
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
 </TASK>

The cause of this is:

- drm_prime_gem_destroy calls dma_buf_put(dma_buf) which releases the
  reference to the shared dma_buf. The reference count is 0, so the
  dma_buf is destroyed, which in turn decrements the corresponding
  amdgpu_bo reference count to 0, and the amdgpu_bo is destroyed -
  calling drm_gem_object_release then dma_resv_fini (which destroys the
  reservation object), then finally freeing the amdgpu_bo.

- nouveau_bo obj->bo.base.resv is now a dangling pointer to the memory
  formerly allocated to the amdgpu_bo.

- nouveau_gem_object_del calls ttm_bo_put(&nvbo->bo) which calls
  ttm_bo_release, which schedules ttm_bo_delayed_delete.

- ttm_bo_delayed_delete runs and dereferences the dangling resv pointer,
  resulting in a general protection fault.

Fix this by moving the drm_prime_gem_destroy call from
nouveau_gem_object_del to nouveau_bo_del_ttm. This ensures that it will
be run after ttm_bo_delayed_delete.

Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37765?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-37765?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-37765 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37765 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-37765 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-37765 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37765 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37765/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37765/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37765
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37765
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-37765

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