System hang via resume-time Thunderbolt HPD handling
Published Oct 21, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
NULL pointer dereference in the AMD display driver in Linux allows local users to hang the system during resume with a Thunderbolt monitor. During resume, a Thunderbolt hot-plug event calls drm_client_modeset_probe() while connector->dev->master is NULL, corrupting the display pipe topology. The condition requires an AMD display path, a connected Thunderbolt monitor, and suspend/resume; the reported consequence is a system hang.
Summary
What happened
NULL pointer dereference in the AMD display driver in Linux allows local users to hang the system during resume with a Thunderbolt monitor. During resume, a Thunderbolt hot-plug event calls drm_client_modeset_probe() while connector->dev->master is NULL, corrupting the display pipe topology. The condition requires an AMD display path, a connected Thunderbolt monitor, and suspend/resume; the reported consequence is a system hang.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-50003
- Published
- Oct 21, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-476, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Oct 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.15
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <52d4e3fb3d340447dcdac0e14ff21a764f326907
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <68d603f467a75618eeae5bfe8af32cda47097010
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <722d2d8fc423108597b97efbf165187d16d9aa1e
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <73e441be033d3ed0bdff09b575da3e7d4606ffc9
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <c2356296f546326f9f06c109e201d42201e1e783
- Affected versionversion=4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c <eb9329cd882aa274e92bdb1003bc088433fdee86
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