# CVE-2024-46896: drm/amdgpu: don't access invalid sched

> A null pointer dereference in the AMD GPU driver allows a local attacker to crash the system by submitting invalid command submissions.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 11 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-46896, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46896, GHSA-vjgg-3f8r-g7rm, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46896

## What is CVE-2024-46896?

CVE-2024-46896 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 Jan 2025. 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/amdgpu: don't access invalid sched

Since 2320c9e6a768 ("drm/sched: memset() 'job' in drm_sched_job_init()")
accessing job->base.sched can produce unexpected results as the initialisation
of (*job)->base.sched done in amdgpu_job_alloc is overwritten by the
memset.

This commit fixes an issue when a CS would fail validation and would
be rejected after job->num_ibs is incremented. In this case,
amdgpu_ib_free(ring->adev, ...) will be called, which would crash the
machine because the ring value is bogus.

To fix this, pass a NULL pointer to amdgpu_ib_free(): we can do this
because the device is actually not used in this function.

The next commit will remove the ring argument completely.

(cherry picked from commit 2ae520cb12831d264ceb97c61f72c59d33c0dbd7)

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-46896?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-46896?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-46896 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-46896 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-46896 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-46896 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-46896 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46896/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46896/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46896
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46896
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-46896

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