CVE-2024-49892 drm/amd/display: Initialize get_bytes_per_element's default to 1

What is CVE-2024-49892?

CVE-2024-49892 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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: Initialize get_bytes_per_element's default to 1

Variables, used as denominators and maybe not assigned to other values, should not be 0. bytes_per_element_y & bytes_per_element_c are initialized by get_bytes_per_element() which should never return 0.

This fixes 10 DIVIDE_BY_ZERO issues reported by Coverity.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49892?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-49892?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-49892 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49892 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-51431, BELL-CVE-2024-49892, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49892, GHSA-x5vx-qmf9-2r9v, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49892.