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CVE-2025-21940drm/amdkfd: Fix NULL Pointer Dereference in KFD queue
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Fix NULL Pointer Dereference in KFD queue Through KFD IOCTL Fuzzing we encountered a NULL pointer derefrence when calling kfd_queue_acquire_buffers. (cherry picked from commit 049e5bf3c8406f87c3d8e1958e0a16804fa1d530)
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 629568d25fea8ece4f65073f039aeef4e240ab67 – < c3cbeafb4e0001d9146df50b470885e02664f3c7
- affected 629568d25fea8ece4f65073f039aeef4e240ab67 – < 33eb8041c5d6c19d46e7bfd23a031844336afd80
- affected 629568d25fea8ece4f65073f039aeef4e240ab67 – < fd617ea3b79d2116d53f76cdb5a3601c0ba6e42f
- affected 6.12
- unaffected < 6.12
- unaffected 6.12.19 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.13.7 – ≤ 6.13.*
- unaffected 6.14 – ≤ *
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-9381 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-21940)Record last updated .