Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference
[WHY] Although unlikely drm_atomic_get_new_connector_state() or drm_atomic_get_old_connector_state() can return NULL.
[HOW] Check returns before dereference.
(cherry picked from commit 1e5e8d672fec9f2ab352be121be971877bff2af9)
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:
- linux @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference
[WHY] Although unlikely drm_atomic_get_new_connector_state() or drm_atomic_get_old_connector_state() can return NULL.
[HOW] Check returns before dereference.
(cherry picked from commit 1e5e8d672fec9f2ab352be121be971877bff2af9)