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CVE-2024-49906 (GCVE-0-2024-49906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:41
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/display: Check null pointer before try to access it
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check null pointer before try to access it [why & how] Change the order of the pipe_ctx->plane_state check to ensure that plane_state is not null before accessing it.
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 13:42 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < ebef6616219ff04abdeb39450625f85419787ee3 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 2002ccb93004e76a471b180560accb2c1f850f35 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 1b686053c06ffb9f4524b288110cf2a831ff7a25 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.64 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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