CVE-2025-39740 drm/xe/migrate: prevent potential UAF

What is CVE-2025-39740?

CVE-2025-39740 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 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:

drm/xe/migrate: prevent potential UAF

If we hit the error path, the previous fence (if there is one) has already been put() prior to this, so doing a fence_wait could lead to UAF. Tweak the flow to do to the put() until after we do the wait.

(cherry picked from commit 9b7ca35ed28fe5fad86e9d9c24ebd1271e4c9c3e)

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-39740?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-39740?

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-2025-39740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-39740, GHSA-p96w-fc3f-mj48, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39740.