CVE-2023-53288 (GCVE-0-2023-53288)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 08:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:42
VLAI?
Title
drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed. This fixes the following kmemleak report: drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm] drm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm] __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper] drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper] drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm] ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast] local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180 work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0 process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540 worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0 kthread+0x29f/0x340 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
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-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c , < 5d580017bdb9b3e930b6009e467e5e1589f8ca8a (git)
Affected: a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c , < 5f2a12f64347f535c6ef55fa7eb36a2874d69b59 (git)
Affected: a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c , < 1369d0c586ad44f2d18fe2f4cbc5bcb24132fa71 (git)
Affected: a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c , < 917bef37cfaca07781c6fbaf6cd9404d27e64e6f (git)
Affected: a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c , < 8108a494639e56aea77e7196a1d6ea89792b9d4a (git)
Affected: a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c , < 2329cc7a101af1a844fbf706c0724c0baea38365 (git)
Affected: 0cc98b5963f8886887aab0ded61970bdccfc2350 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.123 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.42 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.7 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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