CVE-2025-71296

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-05-08 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/tests: shmem: Hold reservation lock around purge Acquire and release the GEM object's reservation lock around calls to the object's purge operation. The tests use drm_gem_shmem_purge_locked(), which led to errors such as show below. [ 58.709128] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1354 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:515 drm_gem_shmem_purge_locked+0x51c/0x740 Only export the new helper drm_gem_shmem_purge() for Kunit tests. This is not an interface for regular drivers.

Affected Software (5)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 954907f7147dc43e0d1cd4d430c21d143d5fdf55 < cdf8bbbd9017adcfb91ad9a902198d4b507719a9
Linux Linux 954907f7147dc43e0d1cd4d430c21d143d5fdf55 < 8baeee2c1c0cdb3a8eac3b8f38156cce6ee1a69f
Linux Linux 954907f7147dc43e0d1cd4d430c21d143d5fdf55 < 3f41307d589c2f25d556d47b165df808124cd0c4
Linux Linux 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16 – 6.18.16

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001210
Percentile 1.9%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00121
2026-11-13
0.00121
2026-11-12
0.00121
2026-11-10
0.00121
2026-11-09
0.00121
2026-11-08
0.00121
2026-11-07
0.00121
2026-11-06
0.00121
2026-11-05
0.00121

Intelligence Sources

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