CVE-2024-26728 drm/amd/display: fix null-pointer dereference on edid reading

What is CVE-2024-26728?

CVE-2024-26728 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

drm/amd/display: fix null-pointer dereference on edid reading

Use i2c adapter when there isn't aux_mode in dc_link to fix a null-pointer derefence that happens when running igt@kms_force_connector_basic in a system with DCN2.1 and HDMI connector detected as below:

[ +0.178146] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000004c0 [ +0.000010] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ +0.000005] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ +0.000004] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ +0.000006] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ +0.000006] CPU: 15 PID: 2368 Comm: kms_force_conne Not tainted 6.5.0-asdn+ #152 [ +0.000005] Hardware name: HP HP ENVY x360 Convertible 13-ay1xxx/8929, BIOS F.01 07/14/2021 [ +0.000004] RIP: 0010:i2c_transfer+0xd/0x100 [ +0.000011] Code: ea fc ff ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 55 53 <48> 8b 47 10 48 89 fb 48 83 38 00 0f 84 b3 00 00 00 83 3d 2f 80 16 [ +0.000004] RSP: 0018:ffff9c4f89c0fad0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ +0.000005] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000005 RCX: 0000000000000080 [ +0.000003] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff9c4f89c0fb20 RDI: 00000000000004b0 [ +0.000003] RBP: ffff9c4f89c0fb80 R08: 0000000000000080 R09: ffff8d8e0b15b980 [ +0.000003] R10: 00000000000380e0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000080 [ +0.000002] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff9c4f89c0fb0e R15: ffff9c4f89c0fb0f [ +0.000004] FS: 00007f9ad2176c40(0000) GS:ffff8d90fe9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ +0.000003] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ +0.000004] CR2: 00000000000004c0 CR3: 0000000121bc4000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0 [ +0.000003] PKRU: 55555554 [ +0.000003] Call Trace: [ +0.000006] <TASK> [ +0.000006] ? __die+0x23/0x70 [ +0.000011] ? page_fault_oops+0x17d/0x4c0 [ +0.000008] ? preempt_count_add+0x6e/0xa0 [ +0.000008] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000011] ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180 [ +0.000009] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 [ +0.000013] ? i2c_transfer+0xd/0x100 [ +0.000010] drm_do_probe_ddc_edid+0xc2/0x140 [drm] [ +0.000067] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000006] ? _drm_do_get_edid+0x97/0x3c0 [drm] [ +0.000043] ? __pfx_drm_do_probe_ddc_edid+0x10/0x10 [drm] [ +0.000042] edid_block_read+0x3b/0xd0 [drm] [ +0.000043] _drm_do_get_edid+0xb6/0x3c0 [drm] [ +0.000041] ? __pfx_drm_do_probe_ddc_edid+0x10/0x10 [drm] [ +0.000043] drm_edid_read_custom+0x37/0xd0 [drm] [ +0.000044] amdgpu_dm_connector_mode_valid+0x129/0x1d0 [amdgpu] [ +0.000153] drm_connector_mode_valid+0x3b/0x60 [drm_kms_helper] [ +0.000000] __drm_helper_update_and_validate+0xfe/0x3c0 [drm_kms_helper] [ +0.000000] ? amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes+0xb6/0x520 [amdgpu] [ +0.000000] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000000] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0x2ab/0x540 [drm_kms_helper] [ +0.000000] status_store+0xb2/0x1f0 [drm] [ +0.000000] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x136/0x1d0 [ +0.000000] vfs_write+0x24d/0x440 [ +0.000000] ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0 [ +0.000000] do_syscall_64+0x60/0xc0 [ +0.000000] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000000] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2b/0x40 [ +0.000000] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000000] ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0xc0 [ +0.000000] ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0xc0 [ +0.000000] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 [ +0.000000] RIP: 0033:0x7f9ad46b4b00 [ +0.000000] Code: 40 00 48 8b 15 19 b3 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 80 3d e1 3a 0e 00 00 74 17 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 58 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 [ +0.000000] RSP: 002b:00007ffcbd3bd6d8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 [ +0.000000] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f9ad46b4b00 [ +0.000000] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f9ad48a7417 RDI: 0000000000000009 [ +0.000000] RBP: 0000000000000002 R08 ---truncated---

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26728?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26728?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-26728 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26728 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-26728, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26728, GHSA-pgm2-2p72-h4hg, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26728.