CVE-2025-38673

Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"

published August 22, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00130 · 2.4th percentile
Published
2025-08-22T16:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 16:03Z
    Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
    cvelistv5