CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-49920

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-21 Modified 2026-10-21 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-10-21
Last modified
2026-10-21
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 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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.11.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References