ghsa-c6h3-g88w-qcm8
Vulnerability from github
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vmwgfx: Fix possible null pointer derefence with invalid contexts
vmw_context_cotable can return either an error or a null pointer and its usage sometimes went unchecked. Subsequent code would then try to access either a null pointer or an error value.
The invalid dereferences were only possible with malformed userspace apps which never properly initialized the rendering contexts.
Check the results of vmw_context_cotable to fix the invalid derefs.
Thanks: ziming zhang(@ezrak1e) from Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab who was the first person to discover it. Niels De Graef who reported it and helped to track down the poc.
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