CVE-2025-71293 drm/amdgpu/ras: Move ras data alloc before bad page check

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A null pointer dereference in the AMD GPU RAS driver causes a kernel crash when reading bad page data with invalid EEPROM entries.

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

What is CVE-2025-71293?

CVE-2025-71293 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 May 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/ras: Move ras data alloc before bad page check

In the rare event if eeprom has only invalid address entries, allocation is skipped, this causes following NULL pointer issue [ 547.103445] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 [ 547.118897] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 547.130292] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 547.141689] PGD 124757067 P4D 0 [ 547.148842] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 547.158504] CPU: 49 PID: 8167 Comm: cat Tainted: G OE 6.8.0-38-generic #38-Ubuntu [ 547.177998] Hardware name: Supermicro AS -8126GS-TNMR/H14DSG-OD, BIOS 1.7 09/12/2025 [ 547.195178] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_ras_sysfs_badpages_read+0x2f2/0x5d0 [amdgpu] [ 547.210375] Code: e8 63 78 82 c0 45 31 d2 45 3b 75 08 48 8b 45 a0 73 44 44 89 f1 48 8b 7d 88 48 89 ca 48 c1 e2 05 48 29 ca 49 8b 4d 00 48 01 d1 <48> 83 79 10 00 74 17 49 63 f2 48 8b 49 08 41 83 c2 01 48 8d 34 76 [ 547.252045] RSP: 0018:ffa0000067287ac0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 547.263636] RAX: ff11000167c28130 RBX: ff11000127600000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 547.279467] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ff11000125b1c800 [ 547.295298] RBP: ffa0000067287b50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 547.311129] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 547.326959] R13: ff11000217b1de00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000092 [ 547.342790] FS: 0000746e59d14740(0000) GS:ff11017dfda80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 547.360744] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 547.373489] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000019585e001 CR4: 0000000000f71ef0 [ 547.389321] PKRU: 55555554 [ 547.395316] Call Trace: [ 547.400737] <TASK> [ 547.405386] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80 [ 547.412929] ? __die+0x24/0x80 [ 547.419697] ? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x1b0 [ 547.428588] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2ee/0x6b0 [ 547.438249] ? exc_page_fault+0x83/0x1b0 [ 547.446949] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 [ 547.456225] ? amdgpu_ras_sysfs_badpages_read+0x2f2/0x5d0 [amdgpu] [ 547.470040] ? mas_wr_modify+0xcd/0x140 [ 547.478548] sysfs_kf_bin_read+0x63/0xb0 [ 547.487248] kernfs_file_read_iter+0xa1/0x190 [ 547.496909] kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x25/0x40 [ 547.506182] vfs_read+0x255/0x390

This also result in space left assigned to negative values. Moving data alloc call before bad page check resolves both the issue.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71293?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-71293?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-71293 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71293 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as AZL-85820, BELL-CVE-2025-71293, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71293, GHSA-4x9q-vprp-3qvr, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-71293, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-71293 and 4 more.

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