CVE-2025-37869 drm/xe: Use local fence in error path of xe_migrate_clear

What is CVE-2025-37869?

CVE-2025-37869 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 9 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/xe: Use local fence in error path of xe_migrate_clear

The intent of the error path in xe_migrate_clear is to wait on locally generated fence and then return. The code is waiting on m->fence which could be the local fence but this is only stable under the job mutex leading to a possible UAF. Fix code to wait on local fence.

(cherry picked from commit 762b7e95362170b3e13a8704f38d5e47eca4ba74)

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37869?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-37869?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2025-37869 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37869 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-37869, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37869, GHSA-59x3-j3qw-gjfx, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37869, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37869.