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GHSA-858G-Q943-3JMM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-21 18:30 – Updated: 2024-10-25 15:31

Details

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

drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before multiple uses

[WHAT & HOW] Poniters, such as stream_enc and dc->bw_vbios, are null checked previously in the same function, so Coverity warns "implies that stream_enc and dc->bw_vbios might be null". They are used multiple times in the subsequent code and need to be checked.

This fixes 10 FORWARD_NULL 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-2024-49920 (GCVE-0-2024-49920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:41

Title

drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before multiple uses

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before multiple uses [WHAT & HOW] Poniters, such as stream_enc and dc->bw_vbios, are null checked previously in the same function, so Coverity warns "implies that stream_enc and dc->bw_vbios might be null". They are used multiple times in the subsequent code and need to be checked. This fixes 10 FORWARD_NULL issues reported by Coverity.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-22 13:40 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26787fb6c2b2ee0d1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdd5ecbbff751c3b9…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 26787fb6c2b2ee0d1a7e1574b36f4711ae40fe27 (git) Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < fdd5ecbbff751c3b9061d8ebb08e5c96119915b4 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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