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CVE-2024-38546drm: vc4: Fix possible null pointer dereference
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.25%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 83% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: vc4: Fix possible null pointer dereference In vc4_hdmi_audio_init() of_get_address() may return NULL which is later dereferenced. Fix this bug by adding NULL check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 83% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < 2d9adecc88ab678785b581ab021f039372c324cb
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < 6cf1874aec42058a5ad621a23b5b2f248def0e96
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < 80431ea3634efb47a3004305d76486db9dd8ed49
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < 42c22b63056cea259d5313bf138a834840af85a5
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < 2a345fe928c21de6f3c3c7230ff509d715153a31
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < bd7827d46d403f8cdb43d16744cb1114e4726b21
- affected bb7d78568814a31a11fa14f1479a9fe51f1582ad – < c534b63bede6cb987c2946ed4d0b0013a52c5ba7
- affected 4.12
- unaffected < 4.12
- unaffected 5.10.219 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.161 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.93 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.33 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.8.12 – ≤ 6.8.*
- unaffected 6.9.3 – ≤ 6.9.*
- unaffected 6.10 – ≤ *
References
References7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d9adecc88ab678785b581ab021f039372c324cb (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cf1874aec42058a5ad621a23b5b2f248def0e96 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80431ea3634efb47a3004305d76486db9dd8ed49 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42c22b63056cea259d5313bf138a834840af85a5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a345fe928c21de6f3c3c7230ff509d715153a31 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd7827d46d403f8cdb43d16744cb1114e4726b21 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c534b63bede6cb987c2946ed4d0b0013a52c5ba7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-37409 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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