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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2024-46810

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/bridge: tc358767: Check if fully initialized before signalling HPD event via IRQ Make sure the connector is fully initialized before signalling any HPD events via drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event(), otherwise this may lead to NULL pointer dereference.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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  • Published