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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-43894

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.

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