CVE-2024-26721

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915/dsc: Fix the macro that calculates DSCC_/DSCA_ PPS reg address

Commit bd077259d0a9 ("drm/i915/vdsc: Add function to read any PPS

register") defines a new macro to calculate the DSC PPS register

addresses with PPS number as an input. This macro correctly calculates

the addresses till PPS 11 since the addresses increment by 4. So in that

case the following macro works correctly to give correct register

address:

_MMIO(_DSCA_PPS_0 + (pps) * 4)

However after PPS 11, the register address for PPS 12 increments by 12

because of RC Buffer memory allocation in between. Because of this

discontinuity in the address space, the macro calculates wrong addresses

for PPS 12 - 16 resulting into incorrect DSC PPS parameter value

read/writes causing DSC corruption.

This fixes it by correcting this macro to add the offset of 12 for PPS

>=12.

v3: Add correct paranthesis for pps argument (Jani Nikula)

(cherry picked from comm

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. 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.

Affected Products

References