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GHSA-WMVM-658G-PPFX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-03 18:31 – Updated: 2026-04-23 21:31

Details

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

drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker

We were overwriting the surface's dirty tracker here causing a memory leak.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-23430 (GCVE-0-2026-23430)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:15 – Updated: 2026-04-13 06:07

Title

drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker We were overwriting the surface's dirty tracker here causing a memory leak.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f300a41a36680956…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/354c8bbf8d1e4aa61…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6cb77c474a32265e…

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Linux

Affected: 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 , < 3f300a41a3668095688aa4551214e8080829fa93 (git)
Affected: 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 , < 354c8bbf8d1e4aa61e580dbe160591feda504e4f (git)
Affected: 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 , < c6cb77c474a32265e21c4871c7992468bf5e7638 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-WMVM-658G-PPFX

CVE-2026-23430 (GCVE-0-2026-23430)

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