FKIE_CVE-2025-39820

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-16 13:15 - Updated: 2026-10-19 21:10
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Add a null ptr check for dpu_encoder_needs_modeset The drm_atomic_get_new_connector_state() can return NULL if the connector is not part of the atomic state. Add a check to prevent a NULL pointer dereference. This follows the same pattern used in dpu_encoder_update_topology() within the same file, which checks for NULL before using conn_state. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/665188/
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaec54254b02f5959c3670177037464d828b2140Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abebfed208515726760d79cf4f9f1a76b9a10a84Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.17
linux linux_kernel 6.17
linux linux_kernel 6.17
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