CVE-2023-53388 (GCVE-0-2023-53388)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 13:33 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:13
VLAI
Title
drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path mtk_drm_bind() can fail, in which case drm_dev_put() is called, destroying the drm_device object. However a pointer to it was still being held in the private object, and that pointer would be passed along to DRM in mtk_drm_sys_prepare() if a suspend were triggered at that point, resulting in a panic. Clean the pointer when destroying the object in the error path to prevent this from happening.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:58 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < 9a48f99aa7bea15e0b1d8b0040c46b4792eddf3b (git)
Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < a161f1d92aabb3b8463f752bdc3474dc3a5ec0e5 (git)
Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < 6a89ddee1686a8872384aaa9f0bcfa6b675acd86 (git)
Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < 49cf87919daeeeeeb9e924c39bdd9203af434461 (git)
Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < 7b551a501fa714890e55bae73efede1185728d72 (git)
Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < f3887c771576c5d740c5c5b8bf654a8ab8020b7d (git)
Affected: 119f5173628aa7a0c3cf9db83460d40709e8241d , < 36aa8c61af55675ed967900fbe5deb32d776f051 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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