CVE-2024-42119

Updated on 30 Jul 2024

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

drm/amd/display: Skip finding free audio for unknown engine_id

[WHY] ENGINE_ID_UNKNOWN = -1 and can not be used as an array index. Plus, it also means it is uninitialized and does not need free audio.

[HOW] Skip and return NULL.

This fixes 2 OVERRUN issues reported by Coverity.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+7 more)

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

drm/amd/display: Skip finding free audio for unknown engine_id

[WHY] ENGINE_ID_UNKNOWN = -1 and can not be used as an array index. Plus, it also means it is uninitialized and does not need free audio.

[HOW] Skip and return NULL.

This fixes 2 OVERRUN issues reported by Coverity.

Fixes