UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71162
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: tegra-adma: Fix use-after-free A use-after-free bug exists in the Tegra ADMA driver when audio streams are terminated, particularly during XRUN conditions. The issue occurs when the DMA buffer is freed by tegra_adma_terminate_all() before the vchan completion tasklet finishes accessing it. The race condition follows this sequence: 1. DMA transfer completes, triggering an interrupt that schedules the completion tasklet (tasklet has not executed yet) 2. Audio playback stops, calling tegra_adma_terminate_all() which frees the DMA buffer memory via kfree() 3. The scheduled tasklet finally executes, calling vchan_complete() which attempts to access the already-freed memory Since tasklets can execute at any time after being scheduled, there is no guarantee that the buffer will remain valid when vchan_complete() runs. Fix this by properly synchronizing the virtual channel completion: - Calling vchan_terminate_vdesc() in tegra_adma_stop() to mark the descriptors as terminated instead of freeing the descriptor. - Add the callback tegra_adma_synchronize() that calls vchan_synchronize() which kills any pending tasklets and frees any terminated descriptors. Crash logs: [ 337.427523] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vchan_complete+0x124/0x3b0 [ 337.427544] Read of size 8 at addr ffff000132055428 by task swapper/0/0 [ 337.427562] Call trace: [ 337.427564] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x320 [ 337.427571] show_stack+0x20/0x30 [ 337.427575] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 [ 337.427584] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x74/0x2b8 [ 337.427590] kasan_report+0x1f4/0x210 [ 337.427598] __asan_load8+0xa0/0xd0 [ 337.427603] vchan_complete+0x124/0x3b0 [ 337.427609] tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x190/0x1d0 [ 337.427617] tasklet_action+0x30/0x40 [ 337.427623] __do_softirq+0x1a0/0x5c4 [ 337.427628] irq_exit+0x110/0x140 [ 337.427633] handle_domain_irq+0xa4/0xe0 [ 337.427640] gic_handle_irq+0x64/0x160 [ 337.427644] call_on_irq_stack+0x20/0x4c [ 337.427649] do_interrupt_handler+0x7c/0x90 [ 337.427654] el1_interrupt+0x30/0x80 [ 337.427659] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x30 [ 337.427663] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80 [ 337.427667] cpuidle_enter_state+0xe4/0x540 [ 337.427674] cpuidle_enter+0x54/0x80 [ 337.427679] do_idle+0x2e0/0x380 [ 337.427685] cpu_startup_entry+0x2c/0x70 [ 337.427690] rest_init+0x114/0x130 [ 337.427695] arch_call_rest_init+0x18/0x24 [ 337.427702] start_kernel+0x380/0x3b4 [ 337.427706] __primary_switched+0xc0/0xc8
CVSS Metrics
- v4.0•HIGH•Score: 7.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Systems
- ubuntu•linux
all | all | all | < 5.15.0-176.186 | < 6.8.0-117.117 | all
- ubuntu•linux-allwinner-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws
all | all | all | < 5.15.0-1105.112 | < 6.8.0-1055.58 | all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.0
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.15
all | < 5.15.0-1105.112~20.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.17
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.8
all | < 6.8.0-1057.60~22.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-aws-fips
all | < 5.15.0-1105.112+fips1 | < 6.8.0-1055.58+fips1
- ubuntu•linux-aws-hwe
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure
all | all | all | all | < 5.15.0-1110.119 | < 6.8.0-1056.62 | all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.15
all | < 5.15.0-1110.119~20.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.17
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.8
all | < 6.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde
all | all | all | all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.17
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fips
all | < 5.15.0-1110.119+fips1 | < 6.8.0-1059.65+fips1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-nvidia
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-nvidia-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-bluefield
all | all | < 5.15.0-1089.91 | all
- ubuntu•linux-fips
all | < 5.15.0-176.186+fips1 | < 6.8.0-116.116+fips1
- ubuntu•linux-gcp
all | all | all | all | < 5.15.0-1105.114 | < 6.8.0-1058.61 | all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.15
all | < 5.15.0-1106.115~20.04.1
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References (29)
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-71162
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71162
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/2efd07a7c36949e6fa36a69183df24d368bf9e96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2efd07a7c36949e6fa36a69183df24d368bf9e96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be655c3736b3546f39bc8116ffbf2a3b6cac96c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb2c9c4bb1322cc3c9984ad17db8cdd2663879ca
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8034-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8034-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8180-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8180-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8186-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8188-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8180-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8180-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8180-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8243-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8180-6
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8275-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8278-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8289-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8296-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8297-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8296-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8289-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8278-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8393-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8440-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8499-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8570-1