{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40037 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40037 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40037 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40037 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40037 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40037/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40037/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40037","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40037/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40037","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-40037","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40037","GHSA-5hpm-4x7m-g857","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-40037","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40037","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40037"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's simplefb driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()\n\nThe pm_domain cleanup can not be devres managed as it uses struct\nsimplefb_par which is allocated within struct fb_info by\nframebuffer_alloc(). This allocation is explicitly freed by\nunregister_framebuffer() in simplefb_remove().\nDevres managed cleanup runs after the device remove call and thus can no\nlonger access struct simplefb_par.\nCall simplefb_detach_genpds() explicitly from simplefb_destroy() like\nthe cleanup functions for clocks and regulators.\n\nFixes an use after free on M2 Mac mini during\naperture_remove_conflicting_devices() using the downstream asahi kernel\nwith Debian's kernel config. For unknown reasons this started to\nconsistently dereference an invalid pointer in v6.16.3 based kernels.\n\n[    6.736134] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220\n[    6.743545] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8000304743f0 by task (udev-worker)/227\n[    6.750697]\n[    6.752182] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 227 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G S                  6.16.3-asahi+ #16 PREEMPTLAZY\n[    6.752186] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC\n[    6.752187] Hardware name: Apple Mac mini (M2, 2023) (DT)\n[    6.752189] Call trace:\n[    6.752190]  show_stack+0x34/0x98 (C)\n[    6.752194]  dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80\n[    6.752197]  print_report+0x17c/0x4d8\n[    6.752201]  kasan_report+0xb4/0x100\n[    6.752206]  __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x30\n[    6.752209]  simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220\n[    6.752213]  devm_action_release+0x50/0x98\n[    6.752216]  release_nodes+0xd0/0x2c8\n[    6.752219]  devres_release_all+0xfc/0x178\n[    6.752221]  device_unbind_cleanup+0x28/0x168\n[    6.752224]  device_release_driver_internal+0x34c/0x470\n[    6.752228]  device_release_driver+0x20/0x38\n[    6.752231]  bus_remove_device+0x1b0/0x380\n[    6.752234]  device_del+0x314/0x820\n[    6.752238]  platform_device_del+0x3c/0x1e8\n[    6.752242]  platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x50\n[    6.752246]  aperture_detach_platform_device+0x1c/0x30\n[    6.752250]  aperture_detach_devices+0x16c/0x290\n[    6.752253]  aperture_remove_conflicting_devices+0x34/0x50\n...\n[    6.752343]\n[    6.967409] Allocated by task 62:\n[    6.970724]  kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70\n[    6.974560]  kasan_save_track+0x20/0x40\n[    6.978397]  kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x58\n[    6.982670]  __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0xd8\n[    6.986420]  __kmalloc_noprof+0x194/0x540\n[    6.990432]  framebuffer_alloc+0xc8/0x130\n[    6.994444]  simplefb_probe+0x258/0x2378\n...\n[    7.054356]\n[    7.055838] Freed by task 227:\n[    7.058891]  kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70\n[    7.062727]  kasan_save_track+0x20/0x40\n[    7.066565]  kasan_save_free_info+0x4c/0x80\n[    7.070751]  __kasan_slab_free+0x6c/0xa0\n[    7.074675]  kfree+0x10c/0x380\n[    7.077727]  framebuffer_release+0x5c/0x90\n[    7.081826]  simplefb_destroy+0x1b4/0x2c0\n[    7.085837]  put_fb_info+0x98/0x100\n[    7.089326]  unregister_framebuffer+0x178/0x320\n[    7.093861]  simplefb_remove+0x3c/0x60\n[    7.097611]  platform_remove+0x60/0x98\n[    7.101361]  device_remove+0xb8/0x160\n[    7.105024]  device_release_driver_internal+0x2fc/0x470\n[    7.110256]  device_release_driver+0x20/0x38\n[    7.114529]  bus_remove_device+0x1b0/0x380\n[    7.118628]  device_del+0x314/0x820\n[    7.122116]  platform_device_del+0x3c/0x1e8\n[    7.126302]  platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x50\n[    7.131012]  aperture_detach_platform_device+0x1c/0x30\n[    7.136157]  aperture_detach_devices+0x16c/0x290\n[    7.140779]  aperture_remove_conflicting_devices+0x34/0x50\n...","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"fbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()","id":"CVE-2025-40037","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"KVM: SVM: Skip fastpath emulation on VM-Exit if next RIP isn't valid","id":"CVE-2025-40038"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"misc: fastrpc: fix possible map leak in fastrpc_put_args","id":"CVE-2025-40036"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-28","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's simplefb driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40037/"}