CVE-2024-38592

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Init `ddp_comp` with devm_kcalloc() In the case where `conn_routes` is true we allocate an extra slot in the `ddp_comp` array but mtk_drm_crtc_create() never seemed to initialize it in the test case I ran. For me, this caused a later crash when we looped through the array in mtk_drm_crtc_mode_valid(). This showed up for me when I booted with `slub_debug=FZPUA` which poisons the memory initially. Without `slub_debug` I couldn't reproduce, presumably because the later code handles the value being NULL and in most cases (not guaranteed in all cases) the memory the allocator returned started out as 0. It really doesn't hurt to initialize the array with devm_kcalloc() since the array is small and the overhead of initting a handful of elements to 0 is small. In general initting memory to zero is a safer practice and usually it's suggested to only use the non-initting alloc functions if you really need to. Let's switch the function to use an allocation function that zeros the memory. For me, this avoids the crash.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJun 19, 2024
First seenJun 19, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.8.12, 6.9.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel6.7 ≤ v < 6.8.12, 6.9 ≤ v < 6.9.36.8.12, 6.9.3

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