CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-49898
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Check null-initialized variables
[WHAT & HOW]
drr_timing and subvp_pipe are initialized to null and they are not
always assigned new values. It is necessary to check for null before
dereferencing.
This fixes 2 FORWARD_NULL issues reported by Coverity.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.10.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/115b1a3b0944b4d8ef0b4b0c5a625bdd9474131f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26d262b79a3587aaa84368586a55e9026c67841b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/367cd9ceba1933b63bc1d87d967baf6d9fd241d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fc70ae048fe0936761b73b50700a810ff61e853 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a3b6d9a9383e3c1a4a08878ba5046e68647595 git.kernel.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org