CVE-2024-46698
kernel: video/aperture: optionally match the device in sysfb_disable()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 13, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
video/aperture: optionally match the device in sysfb_disable()
In aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(), we currently only call sysfb_disable() on vga class devices. This leads to the following problem when the pimary device is not VGA compatible:
- A PCI device with a non-VGA class is the boot display
- That device is probed first and it is not a VGA device so sysfb_disable() is not called, but the device resources are freed by aperture_detach_platform_device()
- Non-primary GPU has a VGA class and it ends up calling sysfb_disable()
- NULL pointer dereference via sysfb_disable() since the resources have already been freed by aperture_detach_platform_device() when it was called by the other device.
Fix this by passing a device pointer to sysfb_disable() and checking the device to determine if we should execute it or not.
v2: Fix build when CONFIG_SCREEN_INFO is not set v3: Move device check into the mutex Drop primary variable in aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() Drop __init on pci sysfb_pci_dev_is_enabled()
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference