CVE-2024-49922: drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before using them
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-49922 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 26 · Related 28Timeline
- 21-10-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 30-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check null pointers before using them [WHAT & HOW] These pointers are null checked previously in the same function, indicating they might be null as reported by Coverity. As a result, they need to be checked when used again. This fixes 3 FORWARD_NULL issue reported by Coverity.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.24%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
15%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.24% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu134 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-54.56
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1023.25
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c, < 530e3d67637e55a59c131f1569352798692b81e9 | ≥ 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c, < 336bc3461b1c74e085bb0f2e1488df4dcc6dc983 | ≥ 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c, < 65e1d2c291553ef3f433a0b7109cc3002a5f40ae | ≥ 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c, < 5e9386baa3033c369564d55de4bab62423e8a1d3 | ≥ 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c, < 1ff12bcd7deaeed25efb5120433c6a45dd5504a8 | 4.15
- linux_kernel< 6.10.14 | ≥ 6.11, < 6.11.3
Debian1 product
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.11.4-1
3 vendors · 137 products
