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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40037" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:18.274Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:41:15.693Z" 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-2025-40037" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40037.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40037" title: "fbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()\n\nThe pm_domain cleanup can not be devres managed as it uses struct\nsimplefb_par which is allocated within struct fb_info by\nframebuffer_alloc(). This allocation is explicitly freed by\nunregister_framebuffer() in simplefb_remove().\nDevres managed cleanup runs after the device remove call and thus can no\nlonger access struct simplefb_par.\nCall simplefb_detach_genpds() explicitly from simplefb_destroy() like\nthe cleanup functions for clocks and regulators.\n\nFixes an use after free on M2 Mac mini during\naperture_remove_conflicting_devices() using the downstream asahi kernel\nwith Debian's kernel config. For unknown reasons this started to\nconsistently dereference an invalid pointer in v6.16.3 based kernels.\n\n[ 6.736134] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220\n[ 6.743545] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8000304743f0 by task (udev-worker)/227\n[ 6.750697]\n[ 6.752182] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 227 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G S 6.16.3-asahi+ #16 PREEMPTLAZY\n[ 6.752186] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC\n[ 6.752187] Hardware name: Apple Mac mini (M2, 2023) (DT)\n[ 6.752189] Call trace:\n[ 6.752190] show_stack+0x34/0x98 (C)\n[ 6.752194] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80\n[ 6.752197] print_report+0x17c/0x4d8\n[ 6.752201] kasan_report+0xb4/0x100\n[ 6.752206] __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x30\n[ 6.752209] simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220\n[ 6.752213] devm_action_release+0x50/0x98\n[ 6.752216] release_nodes+0xd0/0x2c8\n[ 6.752219] devres_release_all+0xfc/0x178\n[ 6.752221] device_unbind_cleanup+0x28/0x168\n[ 6.752224] device_release_driver_internal+0x34c/0x470\n[ 6.752228] device_release_driver+0x20/0x38\n[ 6.752231] bus_remove_device+0x1b0/0x380\n[ 6.752234] device_del+0x314/0x820\n[ 6.752238] platform_device_del+0x3c/0x1e8\n[ 6.752242] platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x50\n[ 6.752246] aperture_detach_platform_device+0x1c/0x30\n[ 6.752250] aperture_detach_devices+0x16c/0x290\n[ 6.752253] aperture_remove_conflicting_devices+0x34/0x50\n...\n[ 6.752343]\n[ 6.967409] Allocated by task 62:\n[ 6.970724] kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70\n[ 6.974560] kasan_save_track+0x20/0x40\n[ 6.978397] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x58\n[ 6.982670] __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0xd8\n[ 6.986420] __kmalloc_noprof+0x194/0x540\n[ 6.990432] framebuffer_alloc+0xc8/0x130\n[ 6.994444] simplefb_probe+0x258/0x2378\n...\n[ 7.054356]\n[ 7.055838] Freed by task 227:\n[ 7.058891] kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70\n[ 7.062727] kasan_save_track+0x20/0x40\n[ 7.066565] kasan_save_free_info+0x4c/0x80\n[ 7.070751] __kasan_slab_free+0x6c/0xa0\n[ 7.074675] kfree+0x10c/0x380\n[ 7.077727] framebuffer_release+0x5c/0x90\n[ 7.081826] simplefb_destroy+0x1b4/0x2c0\n[ 7.085837] put_fb_info+0x98/0x100\n[ 7.089326] unregister_framebuffer+0x178/0x320\n[ 7.093861] simplefb_remove+0x3c/0x60\n[ 7.097611] platform_remove+0x60/0x98\n[ 7.101361] device_remove+0xb8/0x160\n[ 7.105024] device_release_driver_internal+0x2fc/0x470\n[ 7.110256] device_release_driver+0x20/0x38\n[ 7.114529] bus_remove_device+0x1b0/0x380\n[ 7.118628] device_del+0x314/0x820\n[ 7.122116] platform_device_del+0x3c/0x1e8\n[ 7.126302] platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x50\n[ 7.131012] aperture_detach_platform_device+0x1c/0x30\n[ 7.136157] aperture_detach_devices+0x16c/0x290\n[ 7.140779] aperture_remove_conflicting_devices+0x34/0x50\n..." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1deb39cfd614fb2f278b71011692a8dbf0f05ba"},{"version":"92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6ff0d8de8452ec0e18e5bd7394c2a23e7ff7353"},{"version":"92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da1bb9135213744e7ec398826c8f2e843de4fb94"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.3","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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