CVE-2024-43894: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/client: fix null pointer dereference in drm_client_modeset_probe In drm_client_modeset_probe(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate() is assigned to modeset->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 5.3, before 5.4.282 (fixed in 5.4.282); from 5.5, before 5.10.224 (fixed in 5.10.224); from 5.11, before 5.15.165 (fixed in 5.15.165); from 5.16, before 6.1.105 (fixed in 6.1.105); from 6.2, before 6.6.46 (fixed in 6.6.46); from 6.7, before 6.10.5 (fixed in 6.10.5); …

Published 2024-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.