CVE-2024-38546 (GCVE-0-2024-38546)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 13:35 – Updated: 2025-05-04 09:13
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Title
drm: vc4: Fix possible null pointer dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: vc4: Fix possible null pointer dereference In vc4_hdmi_audio_init() of_get_address() may return NULL which is later dereferenced. Fix this bug by adding NULL check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < 2d9adecc88ab678785b581ab021f039372c324cb (git)
Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < 6cf1874aec42058a5ad621a23b5b2f248def0e96 (git)
Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < 80431ea3634efb47a3004305d76486db9dd8ed49 (git)
Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < 42c22b63056cea259d5313bf138a834840af85a5 (git)
Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < 2a345fe928c21de6f3c3c7230ff509d715153a31 (git)
Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < bd7827d46d403f8cdb43d16744cb1114e4726b21 (git)
Affected: bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad , < c534b63bede6cb987c2946ed4d0b0013a52c5ba7 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.219 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.161 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.93 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.33 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.12 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.3 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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