CVE-2024-38592

/// Technical description

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.

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/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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