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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2024-53129

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/rockchip: vop: Fix a dereferenced before check warning The 'state' can't be NULL, we should check crtc_state. Fix warning: drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_vop.c:1096 vop_plane_atomic_async_check() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'state' (see line 1077)

  • 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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published