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CVE-2024-56667: drm/i915: Fix NULL pointer dereference in capture_engine

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Fix NULL pointer dereference in capture_engine When the intel_context structure contains NULL, it raises a NULL pointer dereference error in drm_info(). (cherry picked from commit 754302a5bc1bd8fd3b7d85c168b0a1af6d4bba4d)

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.3 before 6.6.67; from 6.7 before 6.12.6; 6.13-rc1, 6.13-rc2 — fixed in 6.12.6, 6.6.67

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.12.6, 6.6.67. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da0b986256ae9a78b0215214ff44f271bfe237c1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e07f9c92bd127f8835ac669d83b5e7ff59bbb40f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6ebe4f14a267bc431d0eebab4f335c0ebd45977

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