CVE-2025-38098 (GCVE-0-2025-38098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:21
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Title
drm/amd/display: Don't treat wb connector as physical in create_validate_stream_for_sink
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Don't treat wb connector as physical in create_validate_stream_for_sink Don't try to operate on a drm_wb_connector as an amdgpu_dm_connector. While dereferencing aconnector->base will "work" it's wrong and might lead to unknown bad things. Just... don't.
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Linux Linux Affected: dbf5d3d02987faa0eec3710dd687cd912362d7b5 , < b14e726d57f61085485f107a6203c50a09695abd (git)
Affected: dbf5d3d02987faa0eec3710dd687cd912362d7b5 , < 18ca68f7c657721583a75cab01f0d0d2ec63a6c9 (git)
Affected: dbf5d3d02987faa0eec3710dd687cd912362d7b5 , < cbf4890c6f28fb1ad733e14613fbd33c2004bced (git)
Affected: 0fe85301b95077ac4fa4a91909d38b7341e81187 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.31 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.9 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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