Bug 2307879 (CVE-2024-43906) - CVE-2024-43906 kernel: drm/admgpu: fix dereferencing null pointer context
Summary: CVE-2024-43906 kernel: drm/admgpu: fix dereferencing null pointer context
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-43906
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2308118
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Reported: 2024-08-26 11:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-10-22 18:30 UTC (History)
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In Linux kernel drm/admgpu, when user space sets an invalid ta type, the pointer context will be empty, eventually leading to dereferencing a null pointer.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-08-26 11:21:28 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/admgpu: fix dereferencing null pointer context

When user space sets an invalid ta type, the pointer context will be empty.
So it need to check the pointer context before using it
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-08-27 11:17:42 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024082624-CVE-2024-43906-27ab@gregkh/T
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