CVE-2025-38673 (GCVE-0-2025-38673)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:32
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Title
Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Summary
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
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Linux Linux Affected: cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065 , < e31f5a1c2cd38bf977736cdfa79444e19d4005ec (git)
Affected: cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065 , < 2712ca878b688682ac2ce02aefc413fc76019cd9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.9 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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