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CVE-2025-21987 (GCVE-0-2025-21987)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-02 12:30 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:10
VLAI
Title
drm/amdgpu: init return value in amdgpu_ttm_clear_buffer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: init return value in amdgpu_ttm_clear_buffer Otherwise an uninitialized value can be returned if amdgpu_res_cleared returns true for all regions. Possibly closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3812 (cherry picked from commit 7c62aacc3b452f73a1284198c81551035fac6d71)
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a68c7eaa7a8ffdec9287ba1561a668d674c20a13 , < d2c9625b0ade41f9917875d88173a0cc802b95fc (git)
Affected: a68c7eaa7a8ffdec9287ba1561a668d674c20a13 , < 5bd98c2df4a0f2e2dcbdf563feb8d348406377b5 (git)
Affected: a68c7eaa7a8ffdec9287ba1561a668d674c20a13 , < d3c7059b6a8600fc62cd863f1ea203b8675e63e1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.18 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.6 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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