{"id":"CVE-2024-57798","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-57798","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:23:11.558Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/dp_mst: Ensure mst_primary pointer is valid in drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req() While receiving an MST up request message from one thread in drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req(), the MST topology…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/dp_mst: Ensure mst_primary pointer is valid in drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req()\n\nWhile receiving an MST up request message from one thread in\ndrm_dp_mst_handle_up_req(), the MST topology could be removed from\nanother thread via drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr_set_mst(false), freeing\nmst_primary and setting drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr::mst_primary to NULL.\nThis could lead to a NULL deref/use-after-free of mst_primary in\ndrm_dp_mst_handle_up_req().\n\nAvoid the above by holding a reference for mst_primary in\ndrm_dp_mst_handle_up_req() while it's used.\n\nv2: Fix kfreeing the request if getting an mst_primary reference fails.","published":"2025-01-11T13:15:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:14:04.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416","CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00222,"percentile":0.12639,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.22%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9735d40f5fde9970aa46e828ecc85c32571d58a2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce55818b2d3a999f886af91679589e4644ff1dc8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e54b00086f7473dbda1a7d6fc47720ced157c6a8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f61b2e5e7821f868d6afc22382a66a30ee780ba0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57798","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}