CVE-2023-53223 (GCVE-0-2023-53223)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:21 – Updated: 2026-01-14 17:52
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Title
drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue as it may return NULL pointer and cause NULL pointer dereference. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517646/
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 3e18f157faeeb59034404569e8e07cbe1c0030a7 (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 9257974858ee847b2e1fd552691b8ba5c2fc1c7b (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 3a9a4a9725c60f04326b5019a52ce15aee808506 (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 540c66180afd59309a442d3bf1f2393464c8b4c5 (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 5dfe7a5386fde5a656ca06602b31bf50e26954cd (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 25a6499b1a53d854eda2b161b5c8a20296515dbe (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 759ea5677c362fb1e3edc667260ba9f409dc931d (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 115906ca7b535afb1fe7b5406c566ccd3873f82b (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (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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