# CVE-2025-68793: drm/amdgpu: fix a job->pasid access race in gpu recovery > A race condition in the AMD GPU driver allows a use-after-free during recovery, potentially causing system crashes or arbitrary code execution. - **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:** 13 Jan 2026 - **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026 - **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-68793, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68793, GHSA-p9c6-r3cq-rfj5, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68793 ## What is CVE-2025-68793? CVE-2025-68793 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 13 Jan 2026. 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/amdgpu: fix a job->pasid access race in gpu recovery Avoid a possible UAF in GPU recovery due to a race between the sched timeout callback and the tdr work queue. The gpu recovery function calls drm_sched_stop() and later drm_sched_start(). drm_sched_start() restarts the tdr queue which will eventually free the job. If the tdr queue frees the job before time out callback completes, the job will be freed and we'll get a UAF when accessing the pasid. Cache it early to avoid the UAF. Example KASAN trace: [ 493.058141] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.067530] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88b0ce3f794c by task kworker/u128:1/323 [ 493.074892] [ 493.076485] CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 323 Comm: kworker/u128:1 Tainted: G E 6.16.0-1289896.2.zuul.bf4f11df81c1410bbe901c4373305a31 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 493.076493] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE [ 493.076495] Hardware name: TYAN B8021G88V2HR-2T/S8021GM2NR-2T, BIOS V1.03.B10 04/01/2019 [ 493.076500] Workqueue: amdgpu-reset-dev drm_sched_job_timedout [gpu_sched] [ 493.076512] Call Trace: [ 493.076515] [ 493.076518] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80 [ 493.076529] print_report+0xce/0x630 [ 493.076536] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x86/0xd0 [ 493.076541] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10 [ 493.076545] ? amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.077253] kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0 [ 493.077258] ? amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.077965] amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.078672] ? __pfx_amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x10/0x10 [amdgpu] [ 493.079378] ? amdgpu_coredump+0x1fd/0x4c0 [amdgpu] [ 493.080111] amdgpu_job_timedout+0x642/0x1400 [amdgpu] [ 493.080903] ? pick_task_fair+0x24e/0x330 [ 493.080910] ? __pfx_amdgpu_job_timedout+0x10/0x10 [amdgpu] [ 493.081702] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x75/0xc0 [ 493.081708] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081712] drm_sched_job_timedout+0x1b0/0x4b0 [gpu_sched] [ 493.081721] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081725] process_one_work+0x679/0xff0 [ 493.081732] worker_thread+0x6ce/0xfd0 [ 493.081736] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081739] kthread+0x376/0x730 [ 493.081744] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081748] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081751] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081755] ret_from_fork+0x247/0x330 [ 493.081761] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081764] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 493.081771] (cherry picked from commit 20880a3fd5dd7bca1a079534cf6596bda92e107d) Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free) ## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68793? ## How do I fix CVE-2025-68793? Apply the vendor's patch. ## Is CVE-2025-68793 being exploited? There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68793 in the wild and no public exploit code. ## Fix prompt for AI coding agents ```text Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68793 and fix it if it is affected. What it is: CVE-2025-68793 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 13 Jan 2026. 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-2025-68793 in the wild and no public exploit code. Affected product: 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-2025-68793/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68793/index.md) ``` ## Sources - CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68793 - NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68793 - OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-68793 --- From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68793/ Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.