# CVE-2025-39711: media: ivsc: Fix crash at shutdown due to missing mei_cldev_disable() calls

> A missing disable call in the Linux kernel IVSC driver causes a use-after-free crash during system shutdown, leading to denial of service.

- **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:** 5 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-39711, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39711, GHSA-pr76-fcf6-2xg3, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-39711, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-39711, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39711

## What is CVE-2025-39711?

CVE-2025-39711 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Sep 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:

media: ivsc: Fix crash at shutdown due to missing mei_cldev_disable() calls

Both the ACE and CSI driver are missing a mei_cldev_disable() call in
their remove() function.

This causes the mei_cl client to stay part of the mei_device->file_list
list even though its memory is freed by mei_cl_bus_dev_release() calling
kfree(cldev->cl).

This leads to a use-after-free when mei_vsc_remove() runs mei_stop()
which first removes all mei bus devices calling mei_ace_remove() and
mei_csi_remove() followed by mei_cl_bus_dev_release() and then calls
mei_cl_all_disconnect() which walks over mei_device->file_list dereferecing
the just freed cldev->cl.

And mei_vsc_remove() it self is run at shutdown because of the
platform_device_unregister(tp->pdev) in vsc_tp_shutdown()

When building a kernel with KASAN this leads to the following KASAN report:

[ 106.634504] ==================================================================
[ 106.634623] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mei_cl_set_disconnected (drivers/misc/mei/client.c:783) mei
[ 106.634683] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88819cb62018 by task systemd-shutdow/1
[ 106.634729]
[ 106.634767] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[ 106.634770] Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 16 9640/09CK4V, BIOS 1.12.0 02/10/2025
[ 106.634773] Call Trace:
[ 106.634777]  <TASK>
...
[ 106.634871] kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:636)
[ 106.634901] mei_cl_set_disconnected (drivers/misc/mei/client.c:783) mei
[ 106.634921] mei_cl_all_disconnect (drivers/misc/mei/client.c:2165 (discriminator 4)) mei
[ 106.634941] mei_reset (drivers/misc/mei/init.c:163) mei
...
[ 106.635042] mei_stop (drivers/misc/mei/init.c:348) mei
[ 106.635062] mei_vsc_remove (drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h:784 drivers/misc/mei/platform-vsc.c:393) mei_vsc
[ 106.635066] platform_remove (drivers/base/platform.c:1424)

Add the missing mei_cldev_disable() calls so that the mei_cl gets removed
from mei_device->file_list before it is freed to fix this.

Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-39711?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-39711?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-39711 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39711 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-39711 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-39711 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Sep 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-2025-39711 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. 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-2025-39711/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39711/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39711
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39711
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-39711

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