{"id":"CVE-2025-71099","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-71099","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:08:20.411Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/oa: Fix potential UAF in xe_oa_add_config_ioctl() In xe_oa_add_config_ioctl(), we accessed oa_config->id after dropping metrics_lock.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/oa: Fix potential UAF in xe_oa_add_config_ioctl()\n\nIn xe_oa_add_config_ioctl(), we accessed oa_config->id after dropping\nmetrics_lock. Since this lock protects the lifetime of oa_config, an\nattacker could guess the id and call xe_oa_remove_config_ioctl() with\nperfect timing, freeing oa_config before we dereference it, leading to\na potential use-after-free.\n\nFix this by caching the id in a local variable while holding the lock.\n\nv2: (Matt A)\n- Dropped mutex_unlock(&oa->metrics_lock) ordering change from\n  xe_oa_remove_config_ioctl()\n\n(cherry picked from commit 28aeaed130e8e587fd1b73b6d66ca41ccc5a1a31)","published":"2026-01-13T16:16:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T19:17:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00138,"percentile":0.032,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cdb9a9da935c687563cc682155461fef5f9b48d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6d30b65b7a44dac52ad49513268adbf19eab4a2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb171931954c51a1a7250d558f02b8f36570783","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71099","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}