NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting perf package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PERF-8350774
- published 7 Nov 2024
- disclosed 5 Nov 2024
Introduced: 5 Nov 2024
New CVE-2024-50117 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 perf.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd: Guard against bad data for ATIF ACPI method
If a BIOS provides bad data in response to an ATIF method call this causes a NULL pointer dereference in the caller.
? show_regs (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 (discriminator 1))
? __die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:423 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434)
? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:544 (discriminator 2) arch/x86/mm/fault.c:705 (discriminator 2))
? do_user_addr_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:440 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1232 (discriminator 1))
? acpi_ut_update_object_reference (drivers/acpi/acpica/utdelete.c:642)
? exc_page_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1542)
? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:623)
? amdgpu_atif_query_backlight_caps.constprop.0 (drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c:387 (discriminator 2)) amdgpu
? amdgpu_atif_query_backlight_caps.constprop.0 (drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c:386 (discriminator 1)) amdgpu
It has been encountered on at least one system, so guard for it.
(cherry picked from commit c9b7c809b89f24e9372a4e7f02d64c950b07fdee)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50117
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d7175f9c57b1abf9ecfbdfd53ea760761f52ffe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/234682910971732cd4da96fd95946e296e486b38
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b4fa6e0e238c6e2662f4fb61d9f51c2785fb1d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58556dcbd5606a5daccaee73b2130bc16b48e025
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6032287747f874b52dc8b9d7490e2799736e035f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975ede2a7bec52b5da1428829b3439667c8a234b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf58f03931fdcf7b3c45cb76ac13244477a60f44
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd67af3c1762de4c2483ae4dbdd98f9ea8fa56e3