CVE-2024-46709: 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/vmwgfx: Fix prime with external buffers Make sure that for external buffers mapping goes through the dma_buf interface instead of trying to access pages directly. External buffers might not provide direct access to readable/writable pages so to make sure the bo's created from external dma_bufs can be read dma_buf interface has to be used. Fixes crashes in IGT's kms_prime with vgem. Regular desktop usage won't trigger this due to the fact that virtual machines will not have multiple GPUs but it enables better test coverage in IGT.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6.29, before 6.6.49 (fixed in 6.6.49); from 6.8.8, before 6.9 (fixed in 6.9); from 6.9, before 6.10.8 (fixed in 6.10.8); version 6.11 only

Published 2024-09-13. Last modified 2026-08-04.