Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-56711

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/panel: himax-hx83102: Add a check to prevent NULL pointer dereference drmmodeduplicate...

CVE-2024-56711

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/panel: himax-hx83102: Add a check to prevent NULL pointer dereference drmmodeduplicate could return NULL due to lack of memory, which will then call NULL pointer dereference. Add a check to prevent it...

CVE-2024-56711

CVE-2024-56711 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the DRM panel driver for himax-hx83102. The issue arises when drm_mode_duplicate() can return NULL due to memory allocation failure, after which code may dereference NULL pointers. The fix adds a explicit NULL check to prevent a NULL pointe...