Description

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

drm/amd/display: Check null pointer before dereferencing se

[WHAT & HOW]
se is null checked previously in the same function, indicating
it might be null; therefore, it must be checked when used again.

This fixes 1 FORWARD_NULL issue reported by Coverity.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50049

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.82% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-06 (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-2024-50049
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4149eec960110ffd5bcb161075dd9f1d7773075
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c643ef59390e49f1dfab35e8ea65f5db5e527d64
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97a79933fb08a002ba9400d1a7a5df707ecdb896
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b2d49e55fe13ae56da3a7685bdccadca31134a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9b4fd1946678fa0e069e442f3c5a7d3fa446fac
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff599ef6970ee000fa5bc38d02fa5ff5f3fc7575

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