Bug 2383380 (CVE-2025-38361)

Summary: CVE-2025-38361 kernel: drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 14:01:20 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it

[WHAT]

hws was checked for null earlier in dce110_blank_stream, indicating hws
can be null, and should be checked whenever it is used.

(cherry picked from commit 79db43611ff61280b6de58ce1305e0b2ecf675ad)
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-07-25 19:51:17 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025072557-CVE-2025-38361-3f11@gregkh/T