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FKIE_CVE-2023-53498

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-16 20:49

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix potential null dereference The adev->dm.dc pointer can be NULL and dereferenced in amdgpu_dm_fini() without checking. Add a NULL pointer check before calling dc_dmub_srv_destroy(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/281933f36a53fed1c2993a92cf1edfb424595474	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b1afffdd94093118b3cc235ef2b4d2520fb4950	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f1783ff4146344342422c1cd94fcb4ce39b6fe	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/624a60911b71af08a912ee8a296b271b3e7b34ab	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b75aaebac265e3f29863699d9a929fdfba13d0a4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b749771fed3f99bbe8880eaab32a05ede0e5fa	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2023-53498 (GCVE-0-2023-53498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:45 – Updated: 2025-10-29 13:18

Title

drm/amd/display: Fix potential null dereference

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/624a60911b71af08a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b1afffdd94093118…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b75aaebac265e3f29…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/281933f36a53fed1c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b749771fed3f99b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f1783ff41463443…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 9a71c7d31734f74549ad2bcd652c403c71e7c8d1 , < 624a60911b71af08a912ee8a296b271b3e7b34ab (git)
Affected: 9a71c7d31734f74549ad2bcd652c403c71e7c8d1 , < 4b1afffdd94093118b3cc235ef2b4d2520fb4950 (git)
Affected: 9a71c7d31734f74549ad2bcd652c403c71e7c8d1 , < b75aaebac265e3f29863699d9a929fdfba13d0a4 (git)
Affected: 9a71c7d31734f74549ad2bcd652c403c71e7c8d1 , < 281933f36a53fed1c2993a92cf1edfb424595474 (git)
Affected: 9a71c7d31734f74549ad2bcd652c403c71e7c8d1 , < d4b749771fed3f99bbe8880eaab32a05ede0e5fa (git)
Affected: 9a71c7d31734f74549ad2bcd652c403c71e7c8d1 , < 52f1783ff4146344342422c1cd94fcb4ce39b6fe (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2023-53498

CVE-2023-53498 (GCVE-0-2023-53498)

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