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drm/amd/display: Don't treat wb connector as physical in create_validate_stream_for_sink
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Don't treat wb connector as physical in create_validate_stream_for_sink Don't try to operate on a drm_wb_connector as an amdgpu_dm_connector. While dereferencing aconnector->base will "work" it's wrong and might lead to unknown bad things. Just... don't.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.12.31, 6.14.9
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-38098
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 20:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
drm/amd/display: Don't treat wb connector as physical in create_validate_stream_for_sink
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 3 Jul 2025, 08:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Don't treat wb connector as physical in create_validate_stream_for_sink Don't try to operate on a drm_wb_connector as an amdgpu_dm_connector. While dereferencing aconnector->base will "work" it's wrong and might lead to unknown bad things. Just... don't.
osv:CVE-2025-38098
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.12.31, 6.14.9
Complete source record
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