CVE-2024-49921
kernel: drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before used
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 21, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before used
[WHAT & HOW] Poniters, such as dc->clk_mgr, are null checked previously in the same function, so Coverity warns "implies that "dc->clk_mgr" might be null". As a result, these pointers need to be checked when used again.
This fixes 10 FORWARD_NULL issues reported by Coverity.
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