CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2025-21968
High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix slab-use-after-free on hdcp_work
[Why]
A slab-use-after-free is reported when HDCP is destroyed but the
property_validate_dwork queue is still running.
[How]
Cancel the delayed work when destroying workqueue.
(cherry picked from commit 725a04ba5a95e89c89633d4322430cfbca7ce128)
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 9% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06acfdef370ae018dad9592369e2d2fd9a40c09e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1397715b011bcdc6ad91b17df7acaee301e89db5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/378b361e2e30e9729f9a7676f7926868d14f4326
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4964dbc4191ab436877a5e3ecd9c67a4e50b7c36
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93d701064e56788663d7c5918fbe5e060d5df587