In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
video: screen_info: Relocate framebuffers behind PCI bridges
Apply PCI host-bridge window offsets to screen_info framebuffers. Fixes
invalid access to I/O memory.
Resources behind a PCI host bridge can be relocated by a certain offset
in the kernel's CPU address range used for I/O. The framebuffer memory
range stored in screen_info refers to the CPU addresses as seen during
boot (where the offset is 0). During boot up, firmware may assign a
different memory offset to the PCI host bridge and thereby relocating
the framebuffer address of the PCI graphics device as seen by the kernel.
The information in screen_info must be updated as well.
The helper pcibios_bus_to_resource() performs the relocation of the
screen_info's framebuffer resource (given in PCI bus addresses). The
result matches the I/O-memory resource of the PCI graphics device (given
in CPU addresses). As before, we store away the information necessary to
later update the information in screen_info itself.
Commit 78aa89d1dfba ("firmware/sysfb: Update screen_info for relocated
EFI framebuffers") added the code for updating screen_info. It is based
on similar functionality that pre-existed in efifb. Efifb uses a pointer
to the PCI resource, while the newer code does a memcpy of the region.
Hence efifb sees any updates to the PCI resource and avoids the issue.
v3:
- Only use struct pci_bus_region for PCI bus addresses (Bjorn)
- Clarify address semantics in commit messages and comments (Bjorn)
v2:
- Fixed tags (Takashi, Ivan)
- Updated information on efifb
References
Configurations
Configuration 1 (hide)
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History
19 Nov 2025, 18:59
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| CWE | CWE-401 | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f29b5c231011b94007d2c8a6d793992f2275db1 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c70e3ad85d2890d8af375333699429de26327f2 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aeda386d86d79269a08f470dbdc53d13a91e51fa - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc3cc41ed67054a03134bea42408c720eec0fa04 - Patch | |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| First Time |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
25 Jul 2025, 15:15
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Information
Published : 2025-07-25 15:15
Updated : 2025-11-19 18:59
NVD link : CVE-2025-38427
Mitre link : CVE-2025-38427
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-38427
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-401
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
