CVE-2024-49972 (GCVE-0-2024-49972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:02 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:43
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Title
drm/amd/display: Deallocate DML memory if allocation fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Deallocate DML memory if allocation fails [Why] When DC state create DML memory allocation fails, memory is not deallocated subsequently, resulting in uninitialized structure that is not NULL. [How] Deallocate memory if DML memory allocation fails.
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Linux Linux Affected: 7966f319c66d9468623c6a6a017ecbc0dd79be75 , < 80345daa5746184195f2d383a2f1bad058f0f94c (git)
Affected: 7966f319c66d9468623c6a6a017ecbc0dd79be75 , < 892abca6877a96c9123bb1c010cafccdf8ca1b75 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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