CVE-2024-46837
kernel: drm/panthor: Restrict high priorities on group_create
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 27, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/panthor: Restrict high priorities on group_create
We were allowing any users to create a high priority group without any permission checks. As a result, this was allowing possible denial of service.
We now only allow the DRM master or users with the CAP_SYS_NICE capability to set higher priorities than PANTHOR_GROUP_PRIORITY_MEDIUM.
As the sole user of that uAPI lives in Mesa and hardcode a value of MEDIUM [1], this should be safe to do.
Additionally, as those checks are performed at the ioctl level, panthor_group_create now only check for priority level validity.
[1]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/f390835074bdf162a63deb0311d1a6de527f9f89/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_csf.c#L1038
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-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption