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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-43894

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 19.34% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43894
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24ddda932c43ffe156c7f3c568bed85131c63ae6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5291d4f73452c91e8a11f71207617e3e234d418e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c763dfe09425152b6bb0e348900a637c62c2ce52
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d64847c383100423aecb6ac5f18be5f4316d9d62
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d64fc94f7bb24fc2be0d6bd5df8df926da461a6d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/612cae53e99ce32a58cb821b3b67199eb6e92dff
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/113fd6372a5bb3689aba8ef5b8a265ed1529a78f

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