CVE-2023-53837 (GCVE-0-2023-53837)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2025-12-09 01:29
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Summary
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/
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Linux Linux Affected: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c , < 8f0e1ad5327a3499e7f09157cb714302a856e8a4 (git)
Affected: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c , < 16e0e6fb4511c004a5a0987d5bd75d9bcfb2b175 (git)
Affected: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c , < 8eca32b5b92a0be956a8934d7eddf4f70c107927 (git)
Affected: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c , < 19fe79ae816a7e3400df1eb4d27530bf9b8ae258 (git)
Affected: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c , < a465353b9250802f87b97123e33a17f51277f0b1 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.112 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.29 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.16 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.3 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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