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GHSA-2P4Q-Q7J4-Q23G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-27 15:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd/display: Check BIOS images before it is used

BIOS images may fail to load and null checks are added before they are used.

This fixes 6 NULL_RETURNS issues reported by Coverity.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-46809 (GCVE-0-2024-46809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-27 12:35 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:39

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check BIOS images before it is used BIOS images may fail to load and null checks are added before they are used. This fixes 6 NULL_RETURNS issues reported by Coverity.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fcd903a5d9e89742…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5cb98554c4c6265b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef7301e674438913…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e50bec62acaeec03a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e46b70a7cfed71cb8…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b0ddf19cca2a352b…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 4fcd903a5d9e897420d7d8b3ca55c6e5dbb47379 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < c5cb98554c4c6265b494d040c1c62f1db2fa28a6 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < eef7301e674438913134539e77dd887960949f20 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < e50bec62acaeec03afc6fa5dfb2426e52d049cf5 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < e46b70a7cfed71cb84e985c785c39c16df5c28cb (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 8b0ddf19cca2a352b2a7e01d99d3ba949a99c84c (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.231 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.174 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.120 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.50 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.9 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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