Linux Kernel up to 5.15.46/5.17.14/5.18.3 drm/amd/display information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.46/5.17.14/5.18.3. Impacted is an unknown function of the component drm/amd/display. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-49294. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.46/5.17.14/5.18.3 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component drm/amd/display. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check if modulo is 0 before dividing. [How & Why] If a value of 0 is read, then this will cause a divide-by-0 panic.

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-49294 since 02/26/2025. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 276284 (TencentOS Server 4: kernel (TSSA-2025:0347)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.15.47, 5.17.15 or 5.18.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 10ef82d6e0af5536ec64770c07f6bbabfdd6977c/96725758eff7b3805e4e94d1443a100757412720/07efce8269a038c37814eb656b4de14aa3015fc6/49947b906a6bd9668eaf4f9cf691973c25c26955 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 Tenable (276284). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
• 5.15.45
• 5.15.46
• 5.17.0
• 5.17.1
• 5.17.2
• 5.17.3
• 5.17.4
• 5.17.5
• 5.17.6
• 5.17.7
• 5.17.8
• 5.17.9
• 5.17.10
• 5.17.11
• 5.17.12
• 5.17.13
• 5.17.14
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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