CVE-2024-56538

Updated on 27 Dec 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: zynqmp_kms: Unplug DRM device before removal

Prevent userspace accesses to the DRM device from causing use-after-frees by unplugging the device before we remove it. This causes any further userspace accesses to result in an error without further calls into this driver’s internals.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0-11 (+2 more)

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

drm: zynqmp_kms: Unplug DRM device before removal

Prevent userspace accesses to the DRM device from causing use-after-frees by unplugging the device before we remove it. This causes any further userspace accesses to result in an error without further calls into this driver’s internals.

Fixes