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CVE-2024-56537 (GCVE-0-2024-56537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 14:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:54
VLAI
Title
drm: xlnx: zynqmp_disp: layer may be null while releasing
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: xlnx: zynqmp_disp: layer may be null while releasing layer->info can be null if we have an error on the first layer in zynqmp_disp_create_layers
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 20:02 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1836fd5ed98db85f249bf755978c964c2607a25d , < ce7e62bbd55d20cf250396eb4e8f65b3b5a5e685 (git)
Affected: 1836fd5ed98db85f249bf755978c964c2607a25d , < 9218be402aeb1999cc119fc616e21c3cc7cdeec0 (git)
Affected: 1836fd5ed98db85f249bf755978c964c2607a25d , < 223842c7702b52846b1c5aef8aca7474ec1fd29b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.11 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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