CVE-2024-38548
kernel: drm: bridge: cdns-mhdp8546: Fix possible null pointer dereference
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 19, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm: bridge: cdns-mhdp8546: Fix possible null pointer dereference
In cdns_mhdp_atomic_enable(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is assigned to mhdp_state->current_mode, and there is a dereference of it in drm_mode_set_name(), which will lead to a NULL pointer dereference on failure of drm_mode_duplicate().
Fix this bug add a check of mhdp_state->current_mode.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference