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CVE-2023-53991 (GCVE-0-2023-53991)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:53
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Title
drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned
Summary
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/
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f , < 8dbd54d679e3ab37be43bc1ed9f463dbf83a2259 (git)
Affected: bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f , < bf661c5e3bc48973acb363c76e3db965d9ed26d0 (git)
Affected: bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f , < 9e1e236acdc42b5c43ec8d7f03a39537e70cc309 (git)
Affected: bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f , < 9fe3644c720ac87d150f0bba5a4ae86cae55afaf (git)
Affected: bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f , < abc40122d9a69f56c04efb5a7485795f5ac799d1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (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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