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CVE-2025-38674

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CVE-2025-38674

Published: Aug 22, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" This reverts commit f83a9b8c7fd0557b0c50784bfdc1bbe9140c9bf8. 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

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
f83a9b8c7fd0557b0c50784bfdc1bbe9140c9bf8 - < 5f05d83ce689a8930a70dfa73f879604aef8cc03
affected
f83a9b8c7fd0557b0c50784bfdc1bbe9140c9bf8 - < fb4ef4a52b79a22ad382bfe77332642d02aef773

Linux

Linux

affected
6.15
unaffected
0 - < 6.15
unaffected
6.15.9 - <= 6.15.*
unaffected
6.16 - <= *

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