# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40211"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-21T10:21:36.438Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-16T19:58:39.666Z"
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-2025-40211"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40211.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40211"
title: "ACPI: video: Fix use-after-free in acpi_video_switch_brightness()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: video: Fix use-after-free in acpi_video_switch_brightness()\n\nThe switch_brightness_work delayed work accesses device-\u003ebrightness\nand device-\u003ebacklight, freed by acpi_video_dev_unregister_backlight()\nduring device removal.\n\nIf the work executes after acpi_video_bus_unregister_backlight()\nfrees these resources, it causes a use-after-free when\nacpi_video_switch_brightness() dereferences device-\u003ebrightness or\ndevice-\u003ebacklight.\n\nFix this by calling cancel_delayed_work_sync() for each device's\nswitch_brightness_work in acpi_video_bus_remove_notify_handler()\nafter removing the notify handler that queues the work. This ensures\nthe work completes before the memory is freed.\n\n[ rjw: Changelog edit ]"
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