Vulnerability CVE-2024-46709


Published: 2024-09-13

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/vmwgfx: Fix prime with external buffers

Make sure that for external buffers mapping goes through the dma_buf
interface instead of trying to access pages directly.

External buffers might not provide direct access to readable/writable
pages so to make sure the bo's created from external dma_bufs can be
read dma_buf interface has to be used.

Fixes crashes in IGT's kms_prime with vgem. Regular desktop usage won't
trigger this due to the fact that virtual machines will not have
multiple GPUs but it enables better test coverage in IGT.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a9716bbbf3dd6b6cbefba3abcc89af8b72631f4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c12391ee1ab59cb2f3be3f1f5e6d0fc0c2dc854
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50f1199250912568606b3778dc56646c10cb7b04

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