CVE-2024-42081

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Jul 29, 2024
Updated: Jul 30, 2024
CWE ID 476

Summary

CVE-2024-42081 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel's drm/xe/xe_devcoredump component. The issue stemmed from failing to check if 'coredump' was NULL before assignments of 'xe_devcoredump_snapshot *' and 'xe_device *'. This flaw has been addressed through several commits, which also included fixing commit messages, defining variables before code usage, dropping a return check for 'coredump_to_xe', and modifying a misleading commit message.

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