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Debian: CVE-2024-42309: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 17, 2024
Added
Sep 2, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

drm/gma500: fix null pointer dereference in psb_intel_lvds_get_modes

In psb_intel_lvds_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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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