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High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 4, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 19, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices

Commit e77aff5528a18 ("binderfs: fix use-after-free in binder_devices")
addressed a use-after-free where devices could be released without first
being removed from the binder_devices list. However, there is a similar
path in binder_free_proc() that was missed:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binder_remove_device+0xd4/0x100
Write of size 8 at addr ffff0000c773b900 by task umount/467
CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 467 Comm: umount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-00138-g57483a362741 #9 PREEMPT
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
binder_remove_device+0xd4/0x100
binderfs_evict_inode+0x230/0x2f0
evict+0x25c/0x5dc
iput+0x304/0x480
dentry_unlink_inode+0x208/0x46c
__dentry_kill+0x154/0x530
[...]

Allocated by task 463:
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x13c/0x324
binderfs_binder_device_create.isra.0+0x138/0xa60
binder_ctl_ioctl+0x1ac/0x230
[...]

Freed by task 215:
kfree+0x184/0x31c
binder_proc_dec_tmpref+0x33c/0x4ac
binder_deferred_func+0xc10/0x1108
process_one_work+0x520/0xba4
[...]

Call binder_remove_device() within binder_free_proc() to ensure the
device is removed from the binder_devices list before being kfreed.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 4, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 4, 2025
Last updated Nov 19, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(4th percentile)

Weaknesses

Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory belongs to the code that operates on the new pointer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-38175

GHSA ID

GHSA-w5g9-6v5h-28cv

Source code

No known source code

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