CVE-2025-38361 (GCVE-0-2025-38361)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 12:47 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it
[WHAT]
hws was checked for null earlier in dce110_blank_stream, indicating hws
can be null, and should be checked whenever it is used.
(cherry picked from commit 79db43611ff61280b6de58ce1305e0b2ecf675ad)
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 5e1482ae14b03b9fca73ef5afea26ede683f4450
(git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 60e450eec5d63113c6ad5c456ce64c12b4496a6e (git) Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < e881b82f5d3d8d54d168cd276169f0fee01bf0e7 (git) Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < df11bf0ef795b6d415c4d8ee54fa3f2105e75bcb (git) Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < b669507b637eb6b1aaecf347f193efccc65d756e (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.162 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.122 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.36 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.5 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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