{"id":73429,"date":"2025-11-12T05:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40110-drm-vmwgfx-fix-a-null-ptr-access-in-the-cursor-snooper\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:15:32","slug":"cve-2025-40110-drm-vmwgfx-fix-a-null-ptr-access-in-the-cursor-snooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40110-drm-vmwgfx-fix-a-null-ptr-access-in-the-cursor-snooper\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40110 &#8211; drm\/vmwgfx: Fix a null-ptr access in the cursor snooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40110<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Nov. 12, 2025, 2:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 16\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>drm\/vmwgfx: Fix a null-ptr access in the cursor snooper<\/p>\n<p>Check that the resource which is converted to a surface exists before<br \/>\ntrying to use the cursor snooper on it.<\/p>\n<p>vmw_cmd_res_check allows explicit invalid (SVGA3D_INVALID_ID) identifiers<br \/>\nbecause some svga commands accept SVGA3D_INVALID_ID to mean &#8220;no surface&#8221;,<br \/>\nunfortunately functions that accept the actual surfaces as objects might<br \/>\n(and in case of the cursor snooper, do not) be able to handle null<br \/>\nobjects. Make sure that we validate not only the identifier (via the<br \/>\nvmw_cmd_res_check) but also check that the actual resource exists before<br \/>\ntrying to do something with it.<\/p>\n<p>Fixes unchecked null-ptr reference in the snooping code.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40110 Published : Nov. 12, 2025, 2:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 16\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm\/vmwgfx: Fix a null-ptr access in the cursor snooper Check that the resource which is converted to a surface exists before trying to use the cursor snooper on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}