Security Advisory

CVE-2024-43894

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-08-26 10:10:49
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:31:52
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/client: fix null pointer dereference in drm_client_modeset_probe In drm_client_modeset_probe(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is assigned to modeset->mode, which will lead to a possible NULL pointer dereference on failure of drm_mode_duplicate(). Add a check to avoid npd.