In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vmwgfx: Unmap the surface before resetting it on a plane state
Switch to a new plane state requires unreferencing of all held surfaces.
In the work required for mob cursors the mapped surfaces started being
cached but the variable indicating whether the surface is currently
mapped was not being reset. This leads to crashes as the duplicated
state, incorrectly, indicates the that surface is mapped even when
no surface is present. That's because after unreferencing the surface
it's perfectly possible for the plane to be backed by a bo instead of a
surface.
Reset the surface mapped flag when unreferencing the plane state surface
to fix null derefs in cleanup. Fixes crashes in KDE KWin 6.0 on Wayland:
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 PID: 2533 Comm: kwin_wayland Not tainted 6.7.0-rc3-vmwgfx #2
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
RIP: 0010:vmw_du_cursor_plane_cleanup_fb+0x124/0x140 [vmwgfx]
Code: 00 00 00 75 3a 48 83 c4 10 5b 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b b3 a8 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 99 90 43 c0 e8 93 c5 db ca 48 8b 83 a8 00 00 00 <48> 8b 78 28 e8 e3 f>
RSP: 0018:ffffb6b98216fa80 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff969d84cdcb00 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff969e75f21600
RBP: ffff969d4143dc50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb6b98216f920
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff969e7feb3b10 R12:...
CVE ID: CVE-2023-52648
Vendor: Linux
Product: Linux
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)