A vulnerability has been resolved in the Linux kernel's drm/vmwgfx component. The issue involves a null pointer dereference when KMS with 3D is enabled on HW version 10, potentially causing a driver crash and black screen.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vmwgfx: Fix KMS with 3D on HW version 10
HW version 10 does not have GB Surfaces so there is no backing buffer for surface backed FBs. This would result in a nullptr dereference and crash the driver causing a black screen.