CVE-2024-42101: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix null pointer dereference in nouveau_connector_get_modes In nouveau_connector_get_modes(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is assigned to mode, which will lead to a possible NULL pointer dereference on failure of drm_mode_duplicate(). Add a check to avoid npd.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.33, before 4.19.318 (fixed in 4.19.318); from 4.20, before 5.4.280 (fixed in 5.4.280); from 5.5, before 5.10.222 (fixed in 5.10.222); from 5.11, before 5.15.163 (fixed in 5.15.163); from 5.16, before 6.1.98 (fixed in 6.1.98); from 6.2, before 6.6.39 (fixed in 6.6.39); …

Published 2024-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.