CVE-2025-38673

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.15-6.15.9 - NULL Pointer Dereference in DRM GEM Framebuffer Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.15.0 - 6.15.9linux
Linux/Linux < 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15.9 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065 - 2712ca878b688682ac2ce02aefc413fc76019cd9
Linux/Linux cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065 - e31f5a1c2cd38bf977736cdfa79444e19d4005ec
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (7 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 - 6.15.9
Published Aug 22, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026