Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: drm/sti: The return type of stidvo,hda,hdmiconnectormodevalid has been corrected. With Clang’s Kernel Control Flow Integrity kCFI, CONFIGCFICLANG, indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer...

CVE-2022-50261

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fix return type of stidvo,hda,hdmiconnectormodevalid With clang's kernel control flow integrity kCFI, CONFIGCFICLANG, indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer prototype to make sure the...

CVE-2022-50261 drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fix return type of stidvo,hda,hdmiconnectormodevalid With clang's kernel control flow integrity kCFI, CONFIGCFICLANG, indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer prototype to make sure the...

CVE-2022-50261

Summary (CVE-2022-50261) : Linux kernel drivers for STI DRM (sti_hda.c, sti_dvo.c, sti_hdmi.c) used an int return type for mode_valid(), but the drm_connector_helper_funcs prototype requires returning an enum drm_mode_status. This mismatch can trigger a CFI (kCFI) failure and runtime problems (ke...