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CVE-2023-54122 (GCVE-0-2023-54122)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:55
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Title
drm/msm/dpu: Add check for cstate
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Add check for cstate As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check cstate in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference in __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/514163/
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < a6afb8293ec0932f4ed0b7aecfc0ccc00f44dc2b (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 31f2f8de0ea7387cde18a24f94ba5e0b886b9842 (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < d4ba50614cb3f0686bbdb505af685d78e75861dc (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 42442d42c57b9fbc35cb5ef72c7e5347c5f7d082 (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < a52e5a002d18bffabff66f6f59a74f8e9aac5afe (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < c96988b7d99327bb08bd9efd29a203b22cd88ace (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (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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