CVE-2025-71130

MEDIUM EPSS 2.2%
Published Jan 14, 20265mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Jan 14, 2026 5mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/gem: Zero-initialize the eb.vma array in i915_gem_do_execbuffer Initialize the eb.vma array with values of 0 when the eb structure is first set up. In particular, this sets the eb->vma[i].vma pointers to NULL, simplifying cleanup and getting rid of the bug described below. During the execution of eb_lookup_vmas(), the eb->vma array is successively filled up with struct eb_vma objects. This process includes calling eb_add_vma(), which might fail; however, even in the event of failure, eb->vma[i].vma is set for the currently processed buffer. If eb_add_vma() fails, eb_lookup_vmas() returns with an error, which prompts a call to eb_release_vmas() to clean up the mess. Since eb_lookup_vmas() might fail during processing any (possibly not first) buffer, eb_release_vmas() checks whether a buffer's vma is NULL to know at what point did the lookup function fail. In eb_lookup_vmas(), eb->vma[i].vma is set to NULL if either the helper function eb_lookup_vma() or eb_validate_vma() fails. eb->vma[i+1].vma is set to NULL in case i915_gem_object_userptr_submit_init() fails; the current one needs to be cleaned up by eb_release_vmas() at this point, so the next one is set. If eb_add_vma() fails, neither the current nor the next vma is set to NULL, which is a source of a NULL deref bug described in the issue linked in the Closes tag. When entering eb_lookup_vmas(), the vma pointers are set to the slab poison value, instead of NULL. This doesn't matter for the actual lookup, since it gets overwritten anyway, however the eb_release_vmas() function only recognizes NULL as the stopping value, hence the pointers are being set to NULL as they go in case of intermediate failure. This patch changes the approach to filling them all with NULL at the start instead, rather than handling that manually during failure. (cherry picked from commit 08889b706d4f0b8d2352b7ca29c2d8df4d0787cd)

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
2.2% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference Memory Safety

Affected Products 13

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.16.1  –  <6.1.160
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.2  –  <6.6.120
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.7  –  <6.12.64
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.13  –  <6.18.4
linuxlinux_kernel5.16any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any

References 5

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0336188cc85d0eab8463bd1bbd4ded4e9602de8b
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d55ac8e31d2f8197bfad71ffcb3bae21ed7117
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25d69e07770745992387c016613fd7ac8eaf9893
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fe2bd195435e71c117983d87f278112c5ab364c
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63f23aa2fbb823c8b15a29269fde220d227ce5b3
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0336188cc85d0eab8463bd1bbd4ded4e9602de8b
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d55ac8e31d2f8197bfad71ffcb3bae21ed7117
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25d69e07770745992387c016613fd7ac8eaf9893
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fe2bd195435e71c117983d87f278112c5ab364c
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63f23aa2fbb823c8b15a29269fde220d227ce5b3
    Patch