A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in vmwgfx driver
in drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c in GPU component of Linux
kernel with device file '/dev/dri/renderD128 (or Dxxx)'. This flaw
allows a local attacker with a user account on the system to gain
privilege, causing a denial of service(DoS).

This vulnerability can be quickly verified by the following code
logic:
...
dri_fd = open("/dev/dri/renderD128", O_RDWR);
ret = ioctl(dri_fd, 0xC0186441, &arg);
if (ret == 0) {
        printf("[*] VMW_ALLOC_DMABUF Success!\n");
}
...

Submit this commit to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Meng Tang <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
index bd02cb0e6837..0166f98be9df 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
@@ -1244,6 +1244,7 @@ static long vmw_generic_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned 
int cmd,
                                                 unsigned long))
 {
        struct drm_file *file_priv = filp->private_data;
+
        struct drm_device *dev = file_priv->minor->dev;
        unsigned int nr = DRM_IOCTL_NR(cmd);
        unsigned int flags;
@@ -1263,6 +1264,10 @@ static long vmw_generic_ioctl(struct file *filp, 
unsigned int cmd,
                        if (!drm_is_current_master(file_priv) &&
                            !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                                return -EACCES;
+               } else if (nr == DRM_COMMAND_BASE + DRM_VMW_ALLOC_DMABUF) {
+                       if (!drm_is_current_master(file_priv) &&
+                           !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+                               return -EPERM;
                }
 
                if (unlikely(ioctl->cmd != cmd))
-- 
2.20.1

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