CVE-2024-46821
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Sep 27, 2024
Updated: Oct 4, 2024
CWE ID 129
Summary
CVE-2024-46821 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel. This issue involves a read vulnerability in the drm/amd/pm module, specifically with the handling of negative array indices in the clk_idex variable. The vulnerability allows for potential unauthorized access to memory locations within the pptable->DpmDescriptor array. To mitigate this issue, developers should avoid using negative values as indices for clk_idex. Additionally, there is a fix for a related return check issue (addressed in version 2) by Tim Huang.
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