Local privilege escalation via group creation race
Published Dec 24, 2025 · Updated Dec 24, 2025
Use-after-free in the Linux Panthor DRM scheduler allows local users with render-node access to corrupt kernel memory via concurrent ioctls. GROUP_CREATE publishes a group pointer in the pool Xarray before creation finishes, so a racing GROUP_DESTROY can free it while GROUP_CREATE still dereferences it. An unprivileged process with Panthor render-node access can exploit the predictable handle race for kernel-memory disclosure, corruption, control-flow hijacking, or a kernel panic.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the Linux Panthor DRM scheduler allows local users with render-node access to corrupt kernel memory via concurrent ioctls. GROUP_CREATE publishes a group pointer in the pool Xarray before creation finishes, so a racing GROUP_DESTROY can free it while GROUP_CREATE still dereferences it. An unprivileged process with Panthor render-node access can exploit the predictable handle race for kernel-memory disclosure, corruption, control-flow hijacking, or a kernel panic.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-68735
- Published
- Dec 24, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 24, 2025
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 24, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.10
- Affected versionversion=de85488138247d034eb3241840424a54d660926b <c646ebff3fa571e7ea974235286fb9ed3edc260c
- Affected versionversion=de85488138247d034eb3241840424a54d660926b <deb8b2491f6b9882ae02d7dc2651c7bf4f3b7e05
- Affected versionversion=de85488138247d034eb3241840424a54d660926b <eec7e23d848d2194dd8791fcd0f4a54d4378eecd
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