Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-49898 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/115b1a3b0944b4d8ef0b4b0c5a625bdd9474131f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26d262b79a3587aaa84368586a55e9026c67841b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/367cd9ceba1933b63bc1d87d967baf6d9fd241d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fc70ae048fe0936761b73b50700a810ff61e853
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a3b6d9a9383e3c1a4a08878ba5046e68647595