# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39711"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:21:18.348Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:04:46.297Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39711"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39711.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39711"
title: "media: ivsc: Fix crash at shutdown due to missing mei_cldev_disable() calls"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: ivsc: Fix crash at shutdown due to missing mei_cldev_disable() calls\n\nBoth the ACE and CSI driver are missing a mei_cldev_disable() call in\ntheir remove() function.\n\nThis causes the mei_cl client to stay part of the mei_device-\u003efile_list\nlist even though its memory is freed by mei_cl_bus_dev_release() calling\nkfree(cldev-\u003ecl).\n\nThis leads to a use-after-free when mei_vsc_remove() runs mei_stop()\nwhich first removes all mei bus devices calling mei_ace_remove() and\nmei_csi_remove() followed by mei_cl_bus_dev_release() and then calls\nmei_cl_all_disconnect() which walks over mei_device-\u003efile_list dereferecing\nthe just freed cldev-\u003ecl.\n\nAnd mei_vsc_remove() it self is run at shutdown because of the\nplatform_device_unregister(tp-\u003epdev) in vsc_tp_shutdown()\n\nWhen building a kernel with KASAN this leads to the following KASAN report:\n\n[ 106.634504] ==================================================================\n[ 106.634623] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mei_cl_set_disconnected (drivers/misc/mei/client.c:783) mei\n[ 106.634683] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88819cb62018 by task systemd-shutdow/1\n[ 106.634729]\n[ 106.634767] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE\n[ 106.634770] Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 16 9640/09CK4V, BIOS 1.12.0 02/10/2025\n[ 106.634773] Call Trace:\n[ 106.634777]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n...\n[ 106.634871] kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:636)\n[ 106.634901] mei_cl_set_disconnected (drivers/misc/mei/client.c:783) mei\n[ 106.634921] mei_cl_all_disconnect (drivers/misc/mei/client.c:2165 (discriminator 4)) mei\n[ 106.634941] mei_reset (drivers/misc/mei/init.c:163) mei\n...\n[ 106.635042] mei_stop (drivers/misc/mei/init.c:348) mei\n[ 106.635062] mei_vsc_remove (drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h:784 drivers/misc/mei/platform-vsc.c:393) mei_vsc\n[ 106.635066] platform_remove (drivers/base/platform.c:1424)\n\nAdd the missing mei_cldev_disable() calls so that the mei_cl gets removed\nfrom mei_device-\u003efile_list before it is freed to fix this."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"29006e196a5661d9afc8152fa2bf8a5347ac17b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c0e4cc4f55f9a1db2a761e4ffb27c9594245888"},{"version":"29006e196a5661d9afc8152fa2bf8a5347ac17b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"639f5b33fcd7c59157f29b09f6f2866eacf9279c"},{"version":"29006e196a5661d9afc8152fa2bf8a5347ac17b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1dfe73394dcfc9b049c8da0dc181c45f156a5f49"},{"version":"29006e196a5661d9afc8152fa2bf8a5347ac17b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c92c49fc688cfadacc47ae99b06a31237702e9e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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