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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39994" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-15T07:58:19.503Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:35.851Z" 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-2025-39994" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39994.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39994" title: "media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release\n\nThe original code uses cancel_delayed_work() in xc5000_release(), which\ndoes not guarantee that the delayed work item timer_sleep has fully\ncompleted if it was already running. This leads to use-after-free scenarios\nwhere xc5000_release() may free the xc5000_priv while timer_sleep is still\nactive and attempts to dereference the xc5000_priv.\n\nA typical race condition is illustrated below:\n\nCPU 0 (release thread) | CPU 1 (delayed work callback)\nxc5000_release() | xc5000_do_timer_sleep()\n cancel_delayed_work() |\n hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv) |\n kfree(priv) |\n | priv = container_of() // UAF\n\nReplace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure\nthat the timer_sleep is properly canceled before the xc5000_priv memory\nis deallocated.\n\nA deadlock concern was considered: xc5000_release() is called in a process\ncontext and is not holding any locks that the timer_sleep work item might\nalso need. Therefore, the use of the _sync() variant is safe here.\n\nThis bug was initially identified through static analysis.\n\n[hverkuil: fix typo in Subject: tunner -\u003e tuner]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc4ffd962ce16a154c44c68853b9d93f5b6fc4b8"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2f5eaafc0306a76fb1cb760aae804b065b8a341"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f876cd47ed8bca1e28d68435845949f51f90703"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df0303b4839520b84d9367c2fad65b13650a4d42"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71ed8b81a4906cb785966910f39cf7f5ad60a69e"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"effb1c19583bca7022fa641a70766de45c6d41ac"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a00de20ed8ba90888479749b87bc1532cded4ce"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4266f012806fc18e46da4a04d130df59a4946f93"},{"version":"f7a27ff1fb77e114d1059a5eb2ed1cffdc508ce8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40b7a19f321e65789612ebaca966472055dab48c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"version":"5.4.301","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.246","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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