CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98142
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-27
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/cirrus-qemu: Validate BAR0 size during probe
The `cirrus-qemu` driver relies on `CIRRUS_VRAM_SIZE` (4 MB) to validate
framebuffer sizes. However, during PCI probe, the driver mapped BAR0
without verifying that its size matches `CIRRUS_VRAM_SIZE`.
If a PCI device with a BAR0 smaller than 4 MB is bound to the driver, the
mapped VRAM will be smaller than expected. Because validation checks assume
4 MB VRAM, framebuffers larger than the mapped memory can be created.
When the display plane is updated (e.g. during release),
`cirrus_primary_plane_helper_atomic_update()` copies the framebuffer to
VRAM using `drm_fb_memcpy()`. Writing past the end of the mapped I/O memory
causes a supervisor write page fault:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc9000389c000
...
RIP: 0010:memcpy_toio+0x7c/0xe0 arch/x86/lib/iomem.c:110
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
iosys_map_memcpy_to include/linux/iosys-map.h:285 [inline]
drm_fb_memcpy+0x325/0x5d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c:442
cirrus_primary_plane_helper_atomic_update+0x98a/0xb00
drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus-qemu.c:358
drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x626/0xea0
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:3038
drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0x60/0x510
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1989
commit_tail+0x2b1/0x3c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:2074
drm_atomic_helper_commit+0xa77/0xb10
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:2312
Fix this by validating in `cirrus_pci_probe()` that the PCI BAR0 resource
is not less than `CIRRUS_VRAM_SIZE`, returning `-ENODEV` if it is less.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.2 < 6.6.158)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.111)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.53)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.2.7)
• linux linux kernel 7.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b5084a1f070ad1fc34e11945644ae034bbc774c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/144f51cd0ccc3ad47a6099917b7bb535611fb18f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26bd90c886218f36c9adeab206b0e27b4384e2f6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a0e7bcff3fa63e7309d2b39e18af59eb8ef2b6e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92312d333bf700798f92f30406c721bce87506f3 Patch