CVE-2025-40111

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix Use-after-free in validation Nodes stored in the validation duplicates hashtable come from an arena allocator that is cleared at the end of vmw_execbuf_process. All nodes are expected to be cleared in vmw_validation_drop_ht but this node escaped because its resource was destroyed prematurely.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2025-11-12

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1822e5287b7dfa59d0af966756ebf1dc652b60ee
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c918f9d1ccccc0e092f43dcb2d8266f54d7340b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/655a2f29bfc21105c80bf8a7d7aafa6eca8b4496
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65608e991c2d771c13404e5c7ae122ac3c3357a4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/867bda5d95d36f10da398fd4409e21c7002b2332

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