CVE-2024-56775

Updated on 08 Jan 2025

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: Fix handling of plane refcount

[Why] The mechanism to backup and restore plane states doesn’t maintain refcount, which can cause issues if the refcount of the plane changes in between backup and restore operations, such as memory leaks if the refcount was supposed to go down, or double frees / invalid memory accesses if the refcount was supposed to go up.

[How] Cache and re-apply current refcount when restoring plane states.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+15 more)

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

drm/amd/display: Fix handling of plane refcount

[Why] The mechanism to backup and restore plane states doesn’t maintain refcount, which can cause issues if the refcount of the plane changes in between backup and restore operations, such as memory leaks if the refcount was supposed to go down, or double frees / invalid memory accesses if the refcount was supposed to go up.

[How] Cache and re-apply current refcount when restoring plane states.

Fixes