CVE-2024-43899 drm/amd/display: Fix null pointer deref in dcn20_resource.c
A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel AMD display driver causes a system hang when playing video in fullscreen mode.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-43899?
CVE-2024-43899 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Aug 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 deref in dcn20_resource.c
Fixes a hang thats triggered when MPV is run on a DCN401 dGPU:
mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=gpu --hwdec-codecs=all
and then enabling fullscreen playback (double click on the video)
The following calltrace will be seen:
[ 181.843989] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 181.843997] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode [ 181.844003] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page [ 181.844009] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 181.844020] Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 181.844028] CPU: 6 PID: 1892 Comm: gnome-shell Tainted: G W OE 6.5.0-41-generic #41~22.04.2-Ubuntu [ 181.844038] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/CROSSHAIR VI HERO, BIOS 6302 10/23/2018 [ 181.844044] RIP: 0010:0x0 [ 181.844079] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6. [ 181.844084] RSP: 0018:ffffb593c2b8f7b0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 181.844093] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000004 [ 181.844099] RDX: ffffb593c2b8f804 RSI: ffffb593c2b8f7e0 RDI: ffff9e3c8e758400 [ 181.844105] RBP: ffffb593c2b8f7b8 R08: ffffb593c2b8f9c8 R09: ffffb593c2b8f96c [ 181.844110] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffb593c2b8f9c8 [ 181.844115] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff9e3c88000000 R15: 0000000000000005 [ 181.844121] FS: 00007c6e323bb5c0(0000) GS:ffff9e3f85f80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 181.844128] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 181.844134] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 0000000140fbe000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 [ 181.844141] Call Trace: [ 181.844146] <TASK> [ 181.844153] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80 [ 181.844167] ? __die+0x24/0x80 [ 181.844179] ? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x1b0 [ 181.844192] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x31d/0x6b0 [ 181.844204] ? exc_page_fault+0x83/0x1b0 [ 181.844216] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 [ 181.844237] dcn20_get_dcc_compression_cap+0x23/0x30 [amdgpu] [ 181.845115] amdgpu_dm_plane_validate_dcc.constprop.0+0xe5/0x180 [amdgpu] [ 181.845985] amdgpu_dm_plane_fill_plane_buffer_attributes+0x300/0x580 [amdgpu] [ 181.846848] fill_dc_plane_info_and_addr+0x258/0x350 [amdgpu] [ 181.847734] fill_dc_plane_attributes+0x162/0x350 [amdgpu] [ 181.848748] dm_update_plane_state.constprop.0+0x4e3/0x6b0 [amdgpu] [ 181.849791] ? dm_update_plane_state.constprop.0+0x4e3/0x6b0 [amdgpu] [ 181.850840] amdgpu_dm_atomic_check+0xdfe/0x1760 [amdgpu]
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43899?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-43899?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-43899 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43899 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-48209, AZL-48234, BELL-CVE-2024-43899, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43899, GHSA-76rf-j9m6-mjgj, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-43899 and 3 more.