Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/sti: avoid potential dereference of error pointers in sti_hqvdp_atomic_check
The return value of drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() needs to be checked. To avoid use of error pointer ‘crtc_state’ in case of the failure.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0-11 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/sti: avoid potential dereference of error pointers in sti_hqvdp_atomic_check
The return value of drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() needs to be checked. To avoid use of error pointer ‘crtc_state’ in case of the failure.