Service interruption via excess AMD display streams
Published Sep 27, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Out-of-bounds access in the Linux AMD display driver allows local users to interrupt service during GPU initialization. amdgpu_dm_initialize_drm_device copies the hardware-reported maximum stream count into the CRTC count, then indexes a six-entry plane array once per stream without a release-build bounds check. Reachability requires AMD display hardware reporting more than six streams, and the resulting overrun compromises system availability.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds access in the Linux AMD display driver allows local users to interrupt service during GPU initialization. amdgpu_dm_initialize_drm_device copies the hardware-reported maximum stream count into the CRTC count, then indexes a six-entry plane array once per stream without a release-build bounds check. Reachability requires AMD display hardware reporting more than six streams, and the resulting overrun compromises system availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-46817
- Published
- Sep 27, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 27, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.15
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <21bbb39863f10f5fb4bf772d15b07d5d13590e9d
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <28b515c458aa9c92bfcb99884c94713a5f471cea
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <754321ed63f0a4a31252ca72e0bd89a9e1888018
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <84723eb6068c50610c5c0893980d230d7afa2105
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <94cb77700fa4ae6200486bfa0ba2ac547534afd2
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <d398c74c881dee695f6eb6138c9891644e1c3d9d
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <d619b91d3c4af60ac422f1763ce53d721fb91262
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