CVE-2024-46817 (GCVE-0-2024-46817)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-27 12:35
Modified
2026-08-05 11:38
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Stop amdgpu_dm initialize when stream nums greater than 6 [Why] Coverity reports OVERRUN warning. Should abort amdgpu_dm initialize. [How] Return failure to amdgpu_dm_init.
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