CVE-2025-40069: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix obj leak in VM_BIND error path If we fail a handle-lookup part way thru, we need to drop the already obtained obj references. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/669784/

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 6.17, before 6.17.3 (fixed in 6.17.3)

Published 2025-10-28. Last modified 2026-07-30.