Bug 2334542 (CVE-2024-56667)

Summary:	CVE-2024-56667 kernel: drm/i915: Fix NULL pointer dereference in capture_engine
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 16:02:26 UTC

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

drm/i915: Fix NULL pointer dereference in capture_engine

When the intel_context structure contains NULL,
it raises a NULL pointer dereference error in drm_info().

(cherry picked from commit 754302a5bc1bd8fd3b7d85c168b0a1af6d4bba4d)

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 03:04:48 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122753-CVE-2024-56667-3c3f@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:46 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