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GHSA-JX3W-WW7J-892Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-15 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-03 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc

As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/514154/

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53239 (GCVE-0-2023-53239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:22 – Updated: 2025-09-15 14:22

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/514154/

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3975ea6eaffe26aec…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49907c8873826ee77…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82943a0730e00c14b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc579a2ee8b2e20c1…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff771ed008b9cbf…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13fcfcb2a9a4787fe…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 3975ea6eaffe26aec634b5c473e51dc76e73af62 (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 49907c8873826ee771ba0ca1629e809c6479f617 (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 82943a0730e00c14b03e25a4b2a1a9477ae89d7b (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < bc579a2ee8b2e20c152b24b437d094832d8c9c9e (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 37ff771ed008b9cbffd0eab77985968364694ce3 (git)
Affected: 1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa , < 13fcfcb2a9a4787fe4e49841d728f6f2e9fa6911 (git)

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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