# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80701"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:53:04.652Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-28T06:53:04.652Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80701"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80701.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80701"
title: "drm/vmwgfx: enforce cursor size limits for MOB cursors"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/vmwgfx: enforce cursor size limits for MOB cursors\n\nvmw_cursor_plane_atomic_check() bounds cursor width and height only\non the legacy update path; the SVGA_CAP2_CURSOR_MOB path -- the\ndefault on modern hosts -- accepts any size.  When the requested size\nexceeds SVGA_REG_CURSOR_MAX_DIMENSION or SVGA_REG_MOB_MAX_SIZE,\nvmw_cursor_mob_get() returns -EINVAL and leaves vps-\u003ecursor.mob NULL.\nIts return value is then discarded in vmw_cursor_plane_prepare_fb(),\nso the subsequent vmw_cursor_update_mob() calls\nvmw_bo_map_and_cache(NULL) and oopses inside\nvmw_bo_map_and_cache_size() on the tbo.base.size load.\n\nReachable from any DRM master via DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CURSOR2 with a\nsufficiently large width or height (e.g. cursor_max_dim + 1).\n\nReject oversized cursors in atomic_check for both MOB-backed cursor\nupdate types.  The MOB byte-size limit only applies to the\nSVGA_CAP2_CURSOR_MOB path (vmw_cursor_mob_size() returns 0 for\nGB_ONLY); compute the required MOB size in 64-bit to avoid overflow\nwhen very large dimensions are requested.\n\nIn prepare_fb only call vmw_cursor_mob_get()/_map() for\nVMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_MOB -- the GB_ONLY path uses bo-\u003emap.virtual\ndirectly and would otherwise be silently downgraded to NONE on hosts\nwithout SVGA_CAP2_CURSOR_MOB (where vmw_cursor_mob_get() always\nreturns -EINVAL).  Degrade the update to NONE if vmw_cursor_mob_get()\nor vmw_cursor_mob_map() fails so the update path does not run with a\nNULL backing MOB."
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