CVE-2025-38673
Published: Aug 22, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" This reverts commit cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065. The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted in a NULL-pointer deref. Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer: Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM framebuffer associated. Hence, this revert to going back to using .import_attach->dmabuf. v3: - cc stable
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065 - < e31f5a1c2cd38bf977736cdfa79444e19d4005ecaffected cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065 - < 2712ca878b688682ac2ce02aefc413fc76019cd9 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.15unaffected 0 - < 6.15unaffected 6.15.9 - <= 6.15.*unaffected 6.16 - <= * |
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