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CVE-2024-42081 json

drm/xe/xe_devcoredump: Check NULL before assignments

published 2y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2024-39913

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/xe/xe_devcoredump: Check NULL before assignments

Assign 'xe_devcoredump_snapshot *' and 'xe_device *' only if 'coredump' is not NULL.

v2 - Fix commit messages.

v3 - Define variables before code.(Ashutosh/Jose)

v4 - Drop return check for coredump_to_xe. (Jose/Rodrigo)

v5 - Modify misleading commit message. (Matt)

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.9.8, 6.10
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.9.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42081

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2024-42081 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: drm/xe/xe_devcoredump: Check NULL before assignments

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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