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        "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:20:57.159Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-10-28T11:48:38.232Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:07:32.509Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm: Fix obj leak in VM_BIND error path\n\nIf we fail a handle-lookup part way thru, we need to drop the already\nobtained obj references.\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/669784/"
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                            "value": "AV:L - Reached only through the `DRM_IOCTL_MSM_VM_BIND` ioctl on the local msm DRM device/render node, which requires an open file descriptor on `/dev/dri/renderD*`. There is no remote or adjacent-network path to this code.\nAC:L - Triggering is fully deterministic and race-free — a single VM_BIND ioctl with one MSM_VM_BIND_OP_MAP op carrying a handle not present in `file->object_idr` (any large value, since IDR ids are allocated from 1 upward) drives the error path every time. All other validation (page-aligned iova/range, VA range) is trivially satisfied using values queryable via MSM_PARAM_VA_START/VA_SIZE.\nPR:L - Every ioctl on the path (MSM_SET_PARAM, MSM_SUBMITQUEUE_NEW, MSM_VM_BIND) is marked `DRM_RENDER_ALLOW`, so no DRM master, authentication, or capability is needed, and `MSM_PARAM_EN_VM_BIND` has no `capable()` gate. Any unprivileged process that can open the render node — including an Android app, a Chrome GPU sandbox process, or a desktop user on a Snapdragon laptop — qualifies.\nUI:N - The attacker issues the ioctls entirely from their own process; no victim action, no file to open, no device to plug in is involved.\nS:U - The corruption and any resulting escalation stay within the kernel's own security authority on the same host, with no crossing of a hypervisor, IOMMU, or other separate security scope.\nC:H - The union-aliased handle is dereferenced as a `struct drm_gem_object *` at an address the attacker fully controls; if that access succeeds, `drm_gem_object_free()` proceeds to read `obj->funcs->free` from attacker-shaped memory, giving a memory-corruption primitive that can be leveraged into arbitrary kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - `kref_put()` performs an atomic read-modify-write (decrement) at the attacker-supplied address, and reaching zero funnels into an indirect call through a function pointer read from that same attacker-influenced memory — a write plus control-flow-hijack primitive, not a mere refcount imbalance.\nA:H - In the common case the wild pointer lands in an unmapped or PAN/SMAP-protected page and the `refcount_dec_and_test()` faults, producing an immediate kernel oops that kills the task and leaks the job/submitqueue state; an unprivileged user can trigger this at will, and with `panic_on_oops` (common on Android and hardened builds) it is a full system panic."
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