CVE-2024-42101

medium
Published 2024-11-12 ยท Modified 2024-11-12
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix null pointer dereference in nouveau_connector_get_modes In nouveau_connector_get_modes(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is assigned to mode, which will lead to a possible NULL pointer dereference on failure of drm_mode_duplicate(). Add a check to avoid npd.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.98-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.223-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.9.9-1
debian debiansidfixed6.9.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.9.9-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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