CVE-2024-49898
drm/amd/display: Check null-initialized variables
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
21 Oct 2024Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Check null-initialized variables
[WHAT & HOW]
drr_timing and subvp_pipe are initialized to null and they are not
always assigned new values. It is necessary to check for null before
dereferencing.
This fixes 2 FORWARD_NULL issues reported by Coverity.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/115b1a3b0944b4d8ef0b4b0c5a625bdd9474131fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26d262b79a3587aaa84368586a55e9026c67841bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/367cd9ceba1933b63bc1d87d967baf6d9fd241d2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fc70ae048fe0936761b73b50700a810ff61e853https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a3b6d9a9383e3c1a4a08878ba5046e68647595https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html