CVE-2024-58074
kernel: drm/i915: Grab intel_display from the encoder to avoid potential oopsies
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · March 6, 2025
Updated · October 29, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915: Grab intel_display from the encoder to avoid potential oopsies
Grab the intel_display from 'encoder' rather than 'state' in the encoder hooks to avoid the massive footgun that is intel_sanitize_encoder(), which passes NULL as the 'state' argument to encoder .disable() and .post_disable().
TODO: figure out how to actually fix intel_sanitize_encoder()...
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-665 · Improper Initialization