CVE-2022-50417

drm/panfrost: Fix GEM handle creation ref-counting

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 18, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2025

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Description

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

drm/panfrost: Fix GEM handle creation ref-counting

panfrost_gem_create_with_handle() previously returned a BO but with the only reference being from the handle, which user space could in theory guess and release, causing a use-after-free. Additionally if the call to panfrost_gem_mapping_get() in panfrost_ioctl_create_bo() failed then a(nother) reference on the BO was dropped.

The _create_with_handle() is a problematic pattern, so ditch it and instead create the handle in panfrost_ioctl_create_bo(). If the call to panfrost_gem_mapping_get() fails then this means that user space has indeed gone behind our back and freed the handle. In which case just return an error code.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f3ba91228e8e917e5bd6c4b72bfe846933d17370 to before 0b70f6ea4d4f2b4d4b291d86ab76b4d07394932cAffected
  • f3ba91228e8e917e5bd6c4b72bfe846933d17370 to before 4f1105ee72d8c7c35d90e3491b31b2d9d6b7e33aAffected
  • f3ba91228e8e917e5bd6c4b72bfe846933d17370 to before 3f9feffa8a5ab08b4e298a27b1aa7204a7d42ca2Affected
  • f3ba91228e8e917e5bd6c4b72bfe846933d17370 to before ba3d2c2380e7129b525a787489c0b7e819a3b898Affected
  • f3ba91228e8e917e5bd6c4b72bfe846933d17370 to before 4217c6ac817451d5116687f3cc6286220dc43d49Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.2Affected
  • before 5.2Not affected
  • 5.10.163 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.87 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.19 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1.5 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

References

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