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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46245" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-03T15:49:40.645Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:41:29.783Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46245" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46245.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46245" title: "drm/amd/display: Fix dc_link NULL handling in HPD init" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amd/display: Fix dc_link NULL handling in HPD init\n\namdgpu_dm_hpd_init() may see connectors without a valid dc_link.\n\nThe code already checks dc_link for the polling decision, but later\nunconditionally dereferences it when setting up HPD interrupts.\n\nAssign dc_link early and skip connectors where it is NULL.\n\nFixes the below:\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_irq.c:940 amdgpu_dm_hpd_init()\nerror: we previously assumed 'dc_link' could be null (see line 931)\n\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_irq.c\n 923 /*\n 924 * Analog connectors may be hot-plugged unlike other connector\n 925 * types that don't support HPD. Only poll analog connectors.\n 926 */\n 927 use_polling |=\n 928 amdgpu_dm_connector-\u003edc_link &&\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The patch adds this NULL check but hopefully it can be removed\n\n 929 dc_connector_supports_analog(amdgpu_dm_connector-\u003edc_link-\u003elink_id.id);\n 930\n 931 dc_link = amdgpu_dm_connector-\u003edc_link;\n\ndc_link assigned here.\n\n 932\n 933 /*\n 934 * Get a base driver irq reference for hpd ints for the lifetime\n 935 * of dm. Note that only hpd interrupt types are registered with\n 936 * base driver; hpd_rx types aren't. IOW, amdgpu_irq_get/put on\n 937 * hpd_rx isn't available. DM currently controls hpd_rx\n 938 * explicitly with dc_interrupt_set()\n 939 */\n--\u003e 940 if (dc_link-\u003eirq_source_hpd != DC_IRQ_SOURCE_INVALID) {\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If it's NULL then we are trouble because we dereference it here.\n\n 941 irq_type = dc_link-\u003eirq_source_hpd - DC_IRQ_SOURCE_HPD1;\n 942 /*\n 943 * TODO: There's a mismatch between mode_info.num_hpd\n 944 * and what bios reports as the # of connectors with hpd" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d772e8570f19ac05fd9b11c8af86ada98f35f0c8"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0965f1e775130e325e74152d867d2e8ce865fa05"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d15503e454bf117a0d0078332d48df86a41c828"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a490e4d3c9fed1e690c8de348416eea3a9f054ff"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"226a40c06a183abaeb7529a4f54d6c203bd14407"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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