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medium 5.5

CVE-2024-26647 json

drm/amd/display: Fix late derefrence 'dsc' check in 'link_set_dsc_pps_packet()'

published 2024-03-26 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-23909

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

drm/amd/display: Fix late derefrence 'dsc' check in 'link_set_dsc_pps_packet()'

In link_set_dsc_pps_packet(), 'struct display_stream_compressor *dsc' was dereferenced in a DC_LOGGER_INIT(dsc->ctx->logger); before the 'dsc' NULL pointer check.

Fixes the below: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/link/link_dpms.c:905 link_set_dsc_pps_packet() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'dsc' (see line 903)

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.6.15, 6.7.3, 6.8
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.6.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26647

  • linux-gcp-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1
  • linux-hwe-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-41.41~22.04.2
  • linux-oem-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1024.25
  • linux-azure-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1
  • linux-riscv-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-40.40.1~22.04.1
  • linux-nvidia-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1021.22
  • linux-oracle-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1
  • linux-starfive-6.5 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26647

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-26647 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: drm/amd/display: Fix late dereference 'dsc' check in 'link_set_dsc_pps_packet()'

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
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Sources

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