CVE-2024-26662

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

02/04/2024

Last modified:

08/04/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix &#39;panel_cntl&#39; could be null in &#39;dcn21_set_backlight_level()&#39; &#39;panel_cntl&#39; structure used to control the display panel could be null, dereferencing it could lead to a null pointer access. Fixes the below: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/hwss/dcn21/dcn21_hwseq.c:269 dcn21_set_backlight_level() error: we previously assumed &#39;panel_cntl&#39; could be null (see line 250)

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.9 (including)	6.6.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.7.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc3::::::

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CVE-2024-26662

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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