CVE-2024-40916 — Reachable Assertion in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV5.3
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 12
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/exynos: hdmi: report safe 640x480 mode as a fallback when no EDID found
When reading EDID fails and driver reports no modes available, the DRM
core adds an artificial 1024x786 mode to the connector. Unfortunately
some variants of the Exynos HDMI (like the one in Exynos4 SoCs) are not
able to drive such mode, so report a safe 640x480 mode instead of nothing
in case of the EDID reading failure.
This fixes the following issu…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux348aa3d47e8bc2fa4e5b8079554724343631b82a — e23f2eaf51ecb6ab4ceb770e747d50c1db2eb222+9