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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40323" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:50.833Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:45.798Z" 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-2025-40323" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40323.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40323" title: "fbcon: Set fb_display[i]-\u003emode to NULL when the mode is released" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbcon: Set fb_display[i]-\u003emode to NULL when the mode is released\n\nRecently, we discovered the following issue through syzkaller:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fb_mode_is_equal+0x285/0x2f0\nRead of size 4 at addr ff11000001b3c69c by task syz.xxx\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0xab/0xe0\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x390\n print_report+0xb9/0x280\n kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0\n fb_mode_is_equal+0x285/0x2f0\n fbcon_mode_deleted+0x129/0x180\n fb_set_var+0xe7f/0x11d0\n do_fb_ioctl+0x6a0/0x750\n fb_ioctl+0xe0/0x140\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x210\n do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x9c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nBased on experimentation and analysis, during framebuffer unregistration,\nonly the memory of fb_info-\u003emodelist is freed, without setting the\ncorresponding fb_display[i]-\u003emode to NULL for the freed modes. This leads\nto UAF issues during subsequent accesses. Here's an example of reproduction\nsteps:\n1. With /dev/fb0 already registered in the system, load a kernel module\n to register a new device /dev/fb1;\n2. Set fb1's mode to the global fb_display[] array (via FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP);\n3. Switch console from fb to VGA (to allow normal rmmod of the ko);\n4. Unload the kernel module, at this point fb1's modelist is freed, leaving\n a wild pointer in fb_display[];\n5. Trigger the bug via system calls through fb0 attempting to delete a mode\n from fb0.\n\nAdd a check in do_unregister_framebuffer(): if the mode to be freed exists\nin fb_display[], set the corresponding mode pointer to NULL." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39c2c1a2773aaf73e56906e5ef670114eb2d354f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ac18f0e6a6d599ca751c4cd98e522afc8e3d4eb"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"468f78276a37f4c6499385a4ce28f4f57be6655d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c079d42f70109512eee49123a843be91d8fa133f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de89d19f4f30d9a8de87b9d08c1bd35cb70576d8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1f3058930745d2b938b6b4f5bd9630dc74b26b7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","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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