Linux Kernel up to 6.12.58/6.17.8 amdgpu denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.58/6.17.8. This affects an unknown part of the component amdgpu. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-40289. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.58/6.17.8. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown functionality of the component amdgpu. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: hide VRAM sysfs attributes on GPUs without VRAM Otherwise accessing them can cause a crash.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-40289 since 04/16/2025. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 277637 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40289), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.12.59 or 6.17.9 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 39a1c8c860e32d775f29917939e87b6a7c08ebb1/a67a9f99ce1306898d7129a199d42876bc06a0f0/33cc891b56b93cad1a83263eaf2e417436f70c82 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 (277637), EUVD (EUVD-2025-201566) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2756). 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
• NetApp FAS
• NetApp AFF
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• Microsoft Azure Linux

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
• 6.12.6
• 6.12.7
• 6.12.8
• 6.12.9
• 6.12.10
• 6.12.11
• 6.12.12
• 6.12.13
• 6.12.14
• 6.12.15
• 6.12.16
• 6.12.17
• 6.12.18
• 6.12.19
• 6.12.20
• 6.12.21
• 6.12.22
• 6.12.23
• 6.12.24
• 6.12.25
• 6.12.26
• 6.12.27
• 6.12.28
• 6.12.29
• 6.12.30
• 6.12.31
• 6.12.32
• 6.12.33
• 6.12.34
• 6.12.35
• 6.12.36
• 6.12.37
• 6.12.38
• 6.12.39
• 6.12.40
• 6.12.41
• 6.12.42
• 6.12.43
• 6.12.44
• 6.12.45
• 6.12.46
• 6.12.47
• 6.12.48
• 6.12.49
• 6.12.50
• 6.12.51
• 6.12.52
• 6.12.53
• 6.12.54
• 6.12.55
• 6.12.56
• 6.12.57
• 6.12.58
• 6.17.0
• 6.17.1
• 6.17.2
• 6.17.3
• 6.17.4
• 6.17.5
• 6.17.6
• 6.17.7
• 6.17.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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