CVE-2024-46698

video/aperture: optionally match the device in sysfb_disable()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 13, 2024
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

video/aperture: optionally match the device in sysfb_disable()

In aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(), we currently only call sysfb_disable() on vga class devices. This leads to the following problem when the pimary device is not VGA compatible:

1. A PCI device with a non-VGA class is the boot display 2. That device is probed first and it is not a VGA device so sysfb_disable() is not called, but the device resources are freed by aperture_detach_platform_device() 3. Non-primary GPU has a VGA class and it ends up calling sysfb_disable() 4. NULL pointer dereference via sysfb_disable() since the resources have already been freed by aperture_detach_platform_device() when it was called by the other device.

Fix this by passing a device pointer to sysfb_disable() and checking the device to determine if we should execute it or not.

v2: Fix build when CONFIG_SCREEN_INFO is not set v3: Move device check into the mutex Drop primary variable in aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() Drop __init on pci sysfb_pci_dev_is_enabled()

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5ae3716cfdcd286268133867f67d0803847acefc to before 17e78f43de0c6da34204cc858b4cc05671ea9acfAffected
  • 5ae3716cfdcd286268133867f67d0803847acefc to before b49420d6a1aeb399e5b107fc6eb8584d0860fbd7Affected
  • 485ec8f8e1d8ae12aa1daa5ad345ba8940ad2db7Affected
  • 6.1.47 to before 6.2Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.5Affected
  • before 6.5Not affected
  • 6.10.8 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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