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CVE-2026-43337 (GCVE-0-2026-43337)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 13:31 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:06
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/display: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcn401_init_hw()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcn401_init_hw() dcn401_init_hw() assumes that update_bw_bounding_box() is valid when entering the update path. However, the existing condition: ((!fams2_enable && update_bw_bounding_box) || freq_changed) does not guarantee this, as the freq_changed branch can evaluate to true independently of the callback pointer. This can result in calling update_bw_bounding_box() when it is NULL. Fix this by separating the update condition from the pointer checks and ensuring the callback, dc->clk_mgr, and bw_params are validated before use. Fixes the below: ../dc/hwss/dcn401/dcn401_hwseq.c:367 dcn401_init_hw() error: we previously assumed 'dc->res_pool->funcs->update_bw_bounding_box' could be null (see line 362) (cherry picked from commit 86117c5ab42f21562fedb0a64bffea3ee5fcd477)
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ca0fb243c3bb53dbbd71d16c76f319bf923ee3d4 , < 10c13c111d0d7f8e101c742feff264fc98e3f9f7 (git)
Affected: ca0fb243c3bb53dbbd71d16c76f319bf923ee3d4 , < 2d4a6f0702c5211e0be8b688c5fc24f082ec74d6 (git)
Affected: ca0fb243c3bb53dbbd71d16c76f319bf923ee3d4 , < e927b36ae18b66b49219eaa9f46edc7b4fdbb25e (git)
Affected: e13689793b9c0e7b5749954e77f5f85e68fe7138 (git)
Affected: 6.11.3 , < 6.12 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.22 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.12 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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