CVE-2025-38436drm/scheduler: signal scheduled fence when kill job
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 94% 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/scheduler: signal scheduled fence when kill job When an entity from application B is killed, drm_sched_entity_kill() removes all jobs belonging to that entity through drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_work(). If application A's job depends on a scheduled fence from application B's job, and that fence is not properly signaled during the killing process, application A's dependency cannot be cleared. This leads to application A hanging indefinitely while waiting for a dependency that will never be resolved. Fix this issue by ensuring that scheduled fences are properly signaled when an entity is killed, allowing dependent applications to continue execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
- 0.16% · top 94% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected a72ce6f84109c1dec1ab236d65979d3250668af3 – < 8342127a8a65b0673863b106ce32b79c91ae3270
- affected a72ce6f84109c1dec1ab236d65979d3250668af3 – < c5734f9bab6f0d40577ad0633af4090a5fda2407
- affected a72ce6f84109c1dec1ab236d65979d3250668af3 – < aefd0a935625165a6ca36d0258d2d053901555df
- affected a72ce6f84109c1dec1ab236d65979d3250668af3 – < aa382a8b6ed483e9812d0e63b6d1bdcba0186f29
- affected a72ce6f84109c1dec1ab236d65979d3250668af3 – < 471db2c2d4f80ee94225a1ef246e4f5011733e50
- affected 4.3
- unaffected < 4.3
- unaffected 6.1.169 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.96 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.36 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.15.5 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16 – ≤ *
References
References5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8342127a8a65b0673863b106ce32b79c91ae3270 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5734f9bab6f0d40577ad0633af4090a5fda2407 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aefd0a935625165a6ca36d0258d2d053901555df (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa382a8b6ed483e9812d0e63b6d1bdcba0186f29 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/471db2c2d4f80ee94225a1ef246e4f5011733e50 (opens in a new tab)
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-2025-22710 (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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