7.8

CVE-2025-40111: linux

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-40111DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40111
Published 12-11-2025Last modified 15-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-40111 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.15%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 46 · Related 44
DLA-4379-1DLA-4404-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1SUSE-SU-2025:4393-1SUSE-SU-2025:4422-1SUSE-SU-2025:4505-1

Timeline

  1. 12-11-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix Use-after-free in validation Nodes stored in the validation duplicates hashtable come from an arena allocator that is cleared at the end of vmw_execbuf_process. All nodes are expected to be cleared in vmw_validation_drop_ht but this node escaped because its resource was destroyed prematurely.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.14% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu149 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-170.180 | < 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1100.107 | < 6.8.0-1050.53 | < 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.158-1 | < 6.12.57-1 | < 6.17.6-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < 1822e5287b7dfa59d0af966756ebf1dc652b60ee | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < fb7165e5f3b3b10721ff70553583ad12e90e447a | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < 4c918f9d1ccccc0e092f43dcb2d8266f54d7340b | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < 9a8eaca539708ca532747f606d231f70e684e8ca | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < 867bda5d95d36f10da398fd4409e21c7002b2332 | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < 655a2f29bfc21105c80bf8a7d7aafa6eca8b4496 | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < 65608e991c2d771c13404e5c7ae122ac3c3357a4 | ≥ 64ad2abfe9a628ce79859d072704bd1ef7682044, < dfe1323ab3c8a4dd5625ebfdba44dc47df84512a | 4.20

3 vendors · 151 products

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