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medium 5.5

CVE-2024-44982 json

drm/msm/dpu: cleanup FB if dpu_format_populate_layout fails

published 2024-09-04 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-41184

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 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

drm/msm/dpu: cleanup FB if dpu_format_populate_layout fails

If the dpu_format_populate_layout() fails, then FB is prepared, but not cleaned up. This ends up leaking the pin_count on the GEM object and causes a splat during DRM file closure:

msm_obj->pin_count WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 569 at drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c:121 update_lru_locked+0xc4/0xcc [...] Call trace: update_lru_locked+0xc4/0xcc put_pages+0xac/0x100 msm_gem_free_object+0x138/0x180 drm_gem_object_free+0x1c/0x30 drm_gem_object_handle_put_unlocked+0x108/0x10c drm_gem_object_release_handle+0x58/0x70 idr_for_each+0x68/0xec drm_gem_release+0x28/0x40 drm_file_free+0x174/0x234 drm_release+0xb0/0x160 __fput+0xc0/0x2c8 __fput_sync+0x50/0x5c __arm64_sys_close+0x38/0x7c invoke_syscall+0x48/0x118 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0 do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 el0_svc+0x4c/0x120 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x12c el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 irq event stamp: 129818 hardirqs last enabled at (129817): [<ffffa5f6d953fcc0>] console_unlock+0x118/0x124 hardirqs last disabled at (129818): [<ffffa5f6da7dcf04>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x8c softirqs last enabled at (129808): [<ffffa5f6d94afc18>] handle_softirqs+0x4c8/0x4e8 softirqs last disabled at (129785): [<ffffa5f6d94105e4>] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/600714/

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.166, 6.1.107, 6.6.48, 6.10.7, 6.11
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.112-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.10.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44982

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-125.135
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1072.78
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1071.79
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1019.21
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1069.75
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1015.19

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44982

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

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-11.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-11.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_3 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.2
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-20.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-20.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-20.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_3 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20077-1SUSE-SU-2025:20073-1SUSE-SU-2024:3592-1SUSE-SU-2024:3591-1SUSE-SU-2024:3587-1SUSE-SU-2024:3569-1

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-2024-44982 updated cvss 5.1

kernel: drm/msm/dpu: cleanup FB if dpu_format_populate_layout fails

  • 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 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
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% 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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References

Sources

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