Bug 2323932 (CVE-2024-50117)

Summary: CVE-2024-50117 kernel: drm/amd: Guard against bad data for ATIF ACPI method
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-05 18:03:00 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd: Guard against bad data for ATIF ACPI method

If a BIOS provides bad data in response to an ATIF method call
this causes a NULL pointer dereference in the caller.

```
? show_regs (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 (discriminator 1))
? __die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:423 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434)
? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:544 (discriminator 2) arch/x86/mm/fault.c:705 (discriminator 2))
? do_user_addr_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:440 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1232 (discriminator 1))
? acpi_ut_update_object_reference (drivers/acpi/acpica/utdelete.c:642)
? exc_page_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1542)
? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:623)
? amdgpu_atif_query_backlight_caps.constprop.0 (drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c:387 (discriminator 2)) amdgpu
? amdgpu_atif_query_backlight_caps.constprop.0 (drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c:386 (discriminator 1)) amdgpu
```

It has been encountered on at least one system, so guard for it.

(cherry picked from commit c9b7c809b89f24e9372a4e7f02d64c950b07fdee)
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-11-05 21:09:06 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110555-CVE-2024-50117-83b1@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:32:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966