CVE-2026-23317

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Return the correct value in vmw_translate_ptr functions Before the referenced fixes these functions used a lookup function that returned a pointer. This was changed to another lookup function that returned an error code with the pointer becoming an out parameter. The error path when the lookup failed was not changed to reflect this change and the code continued to return the PTR_ERR of the now uninitialized pointer. This could cause the vmw_translate_ptr functions to return success when they actually failed causing further uninitialized and OOB accesses. A flaw was found in the drm/vmwgfx component of the Linux kernel. Incorrect error handling in the vmw_translate_ptr functions could cause them to return a success status even when an internal lookup operation failed. This could lead to the use of uninitialized pointers and out-of-bounds (OOB) memory accesses, potentially resulting in system instability or information disclosure.

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