CVE-2025-71302 drm/panthor: fix for dma-fence safe access rules
A race condition in the Panthor GPU driver can lead to system instability or crashes due to unsafe DMA fence access.
- 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-2025-71302?
CVE-2025-71302 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 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/panthor: fix for dma-fence safe access rules
Commit 506aa8b02a8d6 ("dma-fence: Add safe access helpers and document the rules") details the dma-fence safe access rules. The most common culprit is that drm_sched_fence_get_timeline_name may race with group_free_queue.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71302?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2025-71302?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-71302 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71302 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-71302, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71302, GHSA-x349-38c9-g449, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-71302, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-71302, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-71302 and 1 more.