Bug 2356599 (CVE-2025-21968)

Summary: CVE-2025-21968 kernel: drm/amd/display: Fix slab-use-after-free on hdcp_work
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-01 16:01:48 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd/display: Fix slab-use-after-free on hdcp_work

[Why]
A slab-use-after-free is reported when HDCP is destroyed but the
property_validate_dwork queue is still running.

[How]
Cancel the delayed work when destroying workqueue.

(cherry picked from commit 725a04ba5a95e89c89633d4322430cfbca7ce128)
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2025-04-02 04:44:01 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025040146-CVE-2025-21968-c3f2@gregkh/T