Description

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

drm/exynos: hdmi: report safe 640x480 mode as a fallback when no EDID found

When reading EDID fails and driver reports no modes available, the DRM
core adds an artificial 1024x786 mode to the connector. Unfortunately
some variants of the Exynos HDMI (like the one in Exynos4 SoCs) are not
able to drive such mode, so report a safe 640x480 mode instead of nothing
in case of the EDID reading failure.

This fixes the following issue observed on Trats2 board since commit
13d5b040363c ("drm/exynos: do not return negative values from .get_modes()"):

[drm] Exynos DRM: using 11c00000.fimd device for DMA mapping operations
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 11c00000.fimd (ops fimd_component_ops)
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 12c10000.mixer (ops mixer_component_ops)
exynos-dsi 11c80000.dsi: [drm:samsung_dsim_host_attach] Attached s6e8aa0 device (lanes:4 bpp:24 mode-flags:0x10b)
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 11c80000.dsi (ops exynos_dsi_component_ops)
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 12d00000.hdmi (ops hdmi_component_ops)
[drm] Initialized exynos 1.1.0 20180330 for exynos-drm on minor 1
exynos-hdmi 12d00000.hdmi: [drm:hdmiphy_enable.part.0] *ERROR* PLL could not reach steady state
panel-samsung-s6e8aa0 11c80000.dsi.0: ID: 0xa2, 0x20, 0x8c
exynos-mixer 12c10000.mixer: timeout waiting for VSYNC
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 11 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1682 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblan...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-40916

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 12.41% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e23f2eaf51ecb6ab4ceb770e747d50c1db2eb222
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dfffb50316c761c59386c9b002a10ac6d7bb6c9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6bb258d886e124e5a5328e947b36fdcb3a6028
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3ca24dfe9a2b3f4e8899af108829b0f4b4b15ec
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35bcf16b4a28c10923ff391d14f6ed0ae471ee5f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/510a6c0dfa6ec61d07a4b64698d8dc60045bd632
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/799d4b392417ed6889030a5b2335ccb6dcf030ab

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