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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

drm/client: fix null pointer dereference in drm_client_modeset_probe

CVE-2024-43894

Description

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

drm/client: fix null pointer dereference in drm_client_modeset_probe

In drm_client_modeset_probe(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is assigned to modeset->mode, which will lead to a possible NULL pointer dereference on failure of drm_mode_duplicate(). Add a check to avoid npd.

Affected products

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Patches

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