Linux Kernel up to 6.7.6 display aux_mode null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.7.6. Affected by this vulnerability is the function aux_mode of the component display. Such manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-26728. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.7.6. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function aux_mode of the component display. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: fix null-pointer dereference on edid reading Use i2c adapter when there isn't aux_mode in dc_link to fix a null-pointer derefence that happens when running igt@kms_force_connector_basic in a system with DCN2.1 and HDMI connector detected as below: [ +0.178146] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000004c0 [ +0.000010] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ +0.000005] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ +0.000004] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ +0.000006] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ +0.000006] CPU: 15 PID: 2368 Comm: kms_force_conne Not tainted 6.5.0-asdn+ #152 [ +0.000005] Hardware name: HP HP ENVY x360 Convertible 13-ay1xxx/8929, BIOS F.01 07/14/2021 [ +0.000004] RIP: 0010:i2c_transfer+0xd/0x100 [ +0.000011] Code: ea fc ff ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 55 53 8b 47 10 48 89 fb 48 83 38 00 0f 84 b3 00 00 00 83 3d 2f 80 16 [ +0.000004] RSP: 0018:ffff9c4f89c0fad0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ +0.000005] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000005 RCX: 0000000000000080 [ +0.000003] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff9c4f89c0fb20 RDI: 00000000000004b0 [ +0.000003] RBP: ffff9c4f89c0fb80 R08: 0000000000000080 R09: ffff8d8e0b15b980 [ +0.000003] R10: 00000000000380e0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000080 [ +0.000002] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff9c4f89c0fb0e R15: ffff9c4f89c0fb0f [ +0.000004] FS: 00007f9ad2176c40(0000) GS:ffff8d90fe9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ +0.000003] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ +0.000004] CR2: 00000000000004c0 CR3: 0000000121bc4000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0 [ +0.000003] PKRU: 55555554 [ +0.000003] Call Trace: [ +0.000006] [ +0.000006] ? __die+0x23/0x70 [ +0.000011] ? page_fault_oops+0x17d/0x4c0 [ +0.000008] ? preempt_count_add+0x6e/0xa0 [ +0.000008] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000011] ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180 [ +0.000009] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 [ +0.000013] ? i2c_transfer+0xd/0x100 [ +0.000010] drm_do_probe_ddc_edid+0xc2/0x140 [drm] [ +0.000067] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000006] ? _drm_do_get_edid+0x97/0x3c0 [drm] [ +0.000043] ? __pfx_drm_do_probe_ddc_edid+0x10/0x10 [drm] [ +0.000042] edid_block_read+0x3b/0xd0 [drm] [ +0.000043] _drm_do_get_edid+0xb6/0x3c0 [drm] [ +0.000041] ? __pfx_drm_do_probe_ddc_edid+0x10/0x10 [drm] [ +0.000043] drm_edid_read_custom+0x37/0xd0 [drm] [ +0.000044] amdgpu_dm_connector_mode_valid+0x129/0x1d0 [amdgpu] [ +0.000153] drm_connector_mode_valid+0x3b/0x60 [drm_kms_helper] [ +0.000000] __drm_helper_update_and_validate+0xfe/0x3c0 [drm_kms_helper] [ +0.000000] ? amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes+0xb6/0x520 [amdgpu] [ +0.000000] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000000] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0x2ab/0x540 [drm_kms_helper] [ +0.000000] status_store+0xb2/0x1f0 [drm] [ +0.000000] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x136/0x1d0 [ +0.000000] vfs_write+0x24d/0x440 [ +0.000000] ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0 [ +0.000000] do_syscall_64+0x60/0xc0 [ +0.000000] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000000] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2b/0x40 [ +0.000000] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f [ +0.000000] ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0xc0 [ +0.000000] ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0xc0 [ +0.000000] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 [ +0.000000] RIP: 0033:0x7f9ad46b4b00 [ +0.000000] Code: 40 00 48 8b 15 19 b3 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 80 3d e1 3a 0e 00 00 74 17 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 58 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 [ +0.000000] RSP: 002b:00007ffcbd3bd6d8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 [ +0.000000] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f9ad46b4b00 [ +0.000000] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f9ad48a7417 RDI: 0000000000000009 [ +0.000000] RBP: 0000000000000002 R08 ---truncated---

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-26728 since 02/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 6.7.7 or 6.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 2d392f7268a1/967176179215 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-0773). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• IBM InfoSphere Guardium
• Oracle Linux
• NetApp FAS
• EMC Avamar
• Oracle VM
• NetApp AFF
• Dell NetWorker
• IBM Security Guardium
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• SolarWinds Security Event Manager
• Broadcom Brocade SANnav
• IBM Business Automation Workflow
• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• Juniper Junos Space
• IBM DB2
• IBM Storage Scale System

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.7.0
• 6.7.1
• 6.7.2
• 6.7.3
• 6.7.4
• 6.7.5
• 6.7.6

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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