Bug 2451188 (CVE-2026-23317) - CVE-2026-23317 kernel: drm/vmwgfx: Return the correct value in vmw_translate_ptr functions
Summary: CVE-2026-23317 kernel: drm/vmwgfx: Return the correct value in vmw_translate_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23317
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-03-25 11:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-25 17:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-25 11:03:37 UTC
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.


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