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CVE-2024-46808 (GCVE-0-2024-46808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-27 12:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:36
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/display: Add missing NULL pointer check within dpcd_extend_address_range
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Add missing NULL pointer check within dpcd_extend_address_range [Why & How] ASSERT if return NULL from kcalloc.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-29 14:19 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < ca0b0b0a22306f2e51105ac48f4a09c2fbbb504e (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 5524fa301ba649f8cf00848f91468e0ba7e4f24c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.9 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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