xserver/Xext/present/present_notify.c
Peter Hutterer 5d3b8520ec present: unlink notifies from window list in present_clear_window_notifies
When a window is destroyed, present_clear_window_notifies()
does not remove the notify list node from the window. The notify
may then be freed as part of the window_priv, leaving dangling
pointers in place.

When the vblank owning the notify is later torn down,
present_free_window_notify() calls xorg_list_del() which
writes through these dangling pointers (use-after-free write).

This happens when Present cross-window notifies are used: a
PresentPixmap on window A can reference window B as a notify target.
An untriggered wait_fence keeps the vblank alive so that B can be
destroyed first, creating the dangling-pointer window.

Fix this by calling the free function we have (and moving the window
reset into that function too). present_clear_window_notifies is only
called from one place anyway.

This vulnerability was discovered by:
  Anonymous working with TrendAI Zero Day Initiative

ZDI-CAN-31830

CVE-2026-93515

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2341>
(cherry picked from commit 1b6955c310)
2026-10-20 19:49:20 +02:00

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/*
* Copyright © 2013 Keith Packard
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*/
#include <dix-config.h>
#include "dix/dix_priv.h"
#include "Xext/present/present_priv.h"
/*
* Mark all pending notifies for 'window' as invalid when
* the window is destroyed
*/
void
present_clear_window_notifies(WindowPtr window)
{
present_notify_ptr notify, tmp;
present_window_priv_ptr window_priv = present_window_priv(window);
if (!window_priv)
return;
xorg_list_for_each_entry_safe(notify, tmp, &window_priv->notifies, window_list) {
present_free_window_notify(notify);
}
}
/*
* 'notify' is being freed; remove it from the window's notify list
*/
void
present_free_window_notify(present_notify_ptr notify)
{
notify->window = NULL;
xorg_list_del(&notify->window_list);
}
/*
* 'notify' is new; add it to the specified window
*/
int
present_add_window_notify(present_notify_ptr notify)
{
WindowPtr window = notify->window;
present_window_priv_ptr window_priv = present_get_window_priv(window, TRUE);
if (!window_priv)
return BadAlloc;
xorg_list_add(&notify->window_list, &window_priv->notifies);
return Success;
}
int
present_create_notifies(ClientPtr client, int num_notifies, xPresentNotify *x_notifies, present_notify_ptr *p_notifies)
{
present_notify_ptr notifies;
int i;
int added = 0;
int status;
if (num_notifies <= 0) {
if (num_notifies == 0)
return Success;
else
return BadLength;
}
notifies = calloc (num_notifies, sizeof (present_notify_rec));
if (!notifies)
return BadAlloc;
for (i = 0; i < num_notifies; i++) {
status = dixLookupWindow(&notifies[i].window, x_notifies[i].window, client, DixGetAttrAccess);
if (status != Success)
goto bail;
notifies[i].serial = x_notifies[i].serial;
status = present_add_window_notify(&notifies[i]);
if (status != Success)
goto bail;
added++;
}
*p_notifies = notifies;
return Success;
bail:
present_destroy_notifies(notifies, added);
return status;
}
void
present_destroy_notifies(present_notify_ptr notifies, int num_notifies)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < num_notifies; i++)
present_free_window_notify(&notifies[i]);
free(notifies);
}