# CVE-2024-57926: drm/mediatek: Set private->all_drm_private[i]->drm to NULL if mtk_drm_bind returns err

> A use-after-free vulnerability in the Mediatek DRM driver allows a local attacker to cause a system crash during shutdown.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 19 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-56127, BELL-CVE-2024-57926, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57926, GHSA-58rp-5478-74m7, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57926

## What is CVE-2024-57926?

CVE-2024-57926 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 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/mediatek: Set private->all_drm_private[i]->drm to NULL if mtk_drm_bind returns err

The pointer need to be set to NULL, otherwise KASAN complains about
use-after-free. Because in mtk_drm_bind, all private's drm are set
as follows.

private->all_drm_private[i]->drm = drm;

And drm will be released by drm_dev_put in case mtk_drm_kms_init returns
failure. However, the shutdown path still accesses the previous allocated
memory in drm_atomic_helper_shutdown.

[   84.874820] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
[   86.512054] ==================================================================
[   86.513162] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x33c/0x378
[   86.514258] Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000d46fc068 by task shutdown/1
[   86.515213]
[   86.515455] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: shutdown Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-mtk+gfa1a78e5d24b-dirty #55
[   86.516752] Hardware name: Unknown Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2022.10 10/01/2022
[   86.517960] Call trace:
[   86.518333]  show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
[   86.518891]  dump_stack_lvl+0x90/0xd0
[   86.519443]  print_report+0xf8/0x5b0
[   86.519985]  kasan_report+0xb4/0x100
[   86.520526]  __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30
[   86.521240]  drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x33c/0x378
[   86.521966]  mtk_drm_shutdown+0x54/0x80
[   86.522546]  platform_shutdown+0x64/0x90
[   86.523137]  device_shutdown+0x260/0x5b8
[   86.523728]  kernel_restart+0x78/0xf0
[   86.524282]  __do_sys_reboot+0x258/0x2f0
[   86.524871]  __arm64_sys_reboot+0x90/0xd8
[   86.525473]  invoke_syscall+0x74/0x268
[   86.526041]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x240
[   86.526751]  do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x70
[   86.527251]  el0_svc+0x4c/0xc0
[   86.527719]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x144/0x168
[   86.528367]  el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0
[   86.528920]
[   86.529157] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[   86.529972] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff0000d46fd4d0 pfn:0x1146fc
[   86.531319] flags: 0xbfffc0000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xffff)
[   86.532267] raw: 0bfffc0000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
[   86.533390] raw: ffff0000d46fd4d0 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[   86.534511] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[   86.535323]
[   86.535559] Memory state around the buggy address:
[   86.536265]  ffff0000d46fbf00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   86.537314]  ffff0000d46fbf80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   86.538363] >ffff0000d46fc000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   86.544733]                                                           ^
[   86.551057]  ffff0000d46fc080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   86.557510]  ffff0000d46fc100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   86.563928] ==================================================================
[   86.571093] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[   86.577642] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0e9c0920000000b
[   86.581834] KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0752049000000058-0x075204900000005f]
...

Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57926?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-57926?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-57926 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57926 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-57926 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-57926 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 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-2024-57926 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-2024-57926/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57926/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57926
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57926
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-57926

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