CVE-2023-53991
drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned In the event that the topology requests resources that have not been
created by the system (because they are typically not represented in
dpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC
blocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in
"drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available")
remain NULL but will still be returned out of
dpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array
containing num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs). To prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences
typically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn't
increase past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead.
After all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of
blocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform. ^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to
_dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 RT kernel was updated to fix various security issues.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2025-12-24 CVE Reserved
- 2025-12-24 CVE Published
- 2025-12-24 CVE Updated
- 2026-03-02 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
References (6)
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| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f | Vuln. Introduced |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.7 < 5.10.173 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.7 < 5.10.173" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.7 < 5.15.99 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.7 < 5.15.99" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.7 < 6.1.16 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.7 < 6.1.16" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.7 < 6.2.3 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.7 < 6.2.3" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.7 < 6.3 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.7 < 6.3" | en |
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