Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Skip on writeback when it’s not applicable
[WHY] dynamic memory safety error detector (KASAN) catches and generates error messages “BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds” as writeback connector does not support certain features which are not initialized.
[HOW] Skip them when connector type is DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_WRITEBACK.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+7 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Skip on writeback when it’s not applicable
[WHY] dynamic memory safety error detector (KASAN) catches and generates error messages “BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds” as writeback connector does not support certain features which are not initialized.
[HOW] Skip them when connector type is DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_WRITEBACK.