CVE-2024-58074 drm/i915: Grab intel_display from the encoder to avoid potential oopsies

What is CVE-2024-58074?

CVE-2024-58074 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Mar 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/i915: Grab intel_display from the encoder to avoid potential oopsies

Grab the intel_display from 'encoder' rather than 'state' in the encoder hooks to avoid the massive footgun that is intel_sanitize_encoder(), which passes NULL as the 'state' argument to encoder .disable() and .post_disable().

TODO: figure out how to actually fix intel_sanitize_encoder()...

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58074?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-58074?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-58074 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58074 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-2024-58074, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58074, GHSA-7q55-6rxj-7wf7, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2024-58074, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58074.