CVE-2024-56667

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915: Fix NULL pointer dereference in capture_engine

When the intel_context structure contains NULL, it raises a NULL pointer dereference error in drm_info().

(cherry picked from commit 754302a5bc1bd8fd3b7d85c168b0a1af6d4bba4d)

This vulnerability is rated as Moderate severity because it requires local access on systems equipped with Intel graphics hardware and results strictly in a denial of service. The flaw cannot be exploited across a network and does not permit privilege escalation or confidentiality compromises, limiting the impact to a system crash. Systems running on hardware without Intel GPUs or environments where the i915 kernel driver is not loaded are not affected.

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