ghsa-wpfc-gx92-f98v
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-11-07 12:30
Modified
2025-11-04 00:31
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: Avoid NULL dereference in msm_disp_state_print_regs()

If the allocation in msm_disp_state_dump_regs() failed then block->state can be NULL. The msm_disp_state_print_regs() function does have code to try to handle it with:

if (reg) dump_addr = reg;

...but since "dump_addr" is initialized to NULL the above is actually a noop. The code then goes on to dereference dump_addr.

Make the function print "Registers not stored" when it sees a NULL to solve this. Since we're touching the code, fix msm_disp_state_print_regs() not to pointlessly take a double-pointer and properly mark the pointer as const.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/619657/

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-50156"
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    "nvd_published_at": "2024-11-07T10:15:07Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-wpfc-gx92-f98v",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:31:57Z",
  "published": "2024-11-07T12:30:35Z",
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