CVE-2024-38592

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf69d0af7db917b82aceaa44b7b1b9376609da22
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe2cc3fa44f7ad7ba5f29c1a68b2b924c17b9b1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a2c5123e27b3c4685bf2fc4c2e879f6e0c7b33

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf69d0af7db917b82aceaa44b7b1b9376609da22
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe2cc3fa44f7ad7ba5f29c1a68b2b924c17b9b1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a2c5123e27b3c4685bf2fc4c2e879f6e0c7b33

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