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Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52861): linux-nvidia-6.5 vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

drm: bridge: it66121: Fix invalid connector dereference

Fix the NULL pointer dereference when no monitor is connected, and the
sound card is opened from userspace.

Instead return an empty buffer (of zeroes) as the EDID information to
the sound framework if there is no connector attached.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-nvidia-6-5
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