CVE-2023-53837

drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 9, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 9, 2025

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Description

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

drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down

In case of early initialisation errors and on platforms that do not use the DPU controller, the deinitilisation code can be called with the kms pointer set to NULL.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/525099/

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c to before 8f0e1ad5327a3499e7f09157cb714302a856e8a4Affected
  • 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c to before 16e0e6fb4511c004a5a0987d5bd75d9bcfb2b175Affected
  • 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c to before 8eca32b5b92a0be956a8934d7eddf4f70c107927Affected
  • 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c to before 19fe79ae816a7e3400df1eb4d27530bf9b8ae258Affected
  • 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c to before a465353b9250802f87b97123e33a17f51277f0b1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.112 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.29 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.16 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3.3 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4 and laterNot affected

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