Linux Kernel up to 6.17.2 remoteproc qcom_scm_pas_shutdown denial of service

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.17.2. This impacts the function qcom_scm_pas_shutdown of the component remoteproc. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-40113. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.17.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function qcom_scm_pas_shutdown of the component remoteproc. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: remoteproc: qcom: pas: Shutdown lite ADSP DTB on X1E The ADSP firmware on X1E has separate firmware binaries for the main firmware and the DTB. The same applies for the "lite" firmware loaded by the boot firmware. When preparing to load the new ADSP firmware we shutdown the lite_pas_id for the main firmware, but we don't shutdown the corresponding lite pas_id for the DTB. The fact that we're leaving it "running" forever becomes obvious if you try to reuse (or just access) the memory region used by the "lite" firmware: The &adsp_boot_mem is accessible, but accessing the &adsp_boot_dtb_mem results in a crash. We don't support reusing the memory regions currently, but nevertheless we should not keep part of the lite firmware running. Fix this by adding the lite_dtb_pas_id and shutting it down as well. We don't have a way to detect if the lite firmware is actually running yet, so ignore the return status of qcom_scm_pas_shutdown() for now. This was already the case before, the assignment to "ret" is not used anywhere.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-40113 since 04/16/2025. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 298897 (Ubuntu 25.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8029-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.17.3 or 6.18-rc1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch ee150acd273aded01a726ce39b1f6128200799e6/142964960c7c35de5c5f7bdd61c32699de693630 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (298897) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2579). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• RESF Rocky Linux

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.17.0
• 6.17.1
• 6.17.2

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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