CVE-2023-53223 (GCVE-0-2023-53223)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-15 14:21
Modified
2025-09-15 14:21
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue as it may return NULL pointer and cause NULL pointer dereference. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517646/
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/115906ca7b535afb1fe7b5406c566ccd3873f82b
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25a6499b1a53d854eda2b161b5c8a20296515dbe
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a9a4a9725c60f04326b5019a52ce15aee808506
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e18f157faeeb59034404569e8e07cbe1c0030a7
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/540c66180afd59309a442d3bf1f2393464c8b4c5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dfe7a5386fde5a656ca06602b31bf50e26954cd
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/759ea5677c362fb1e3edc667260ba9f409dc931d
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9257974858ee847b2e1fd552691b8ba5c2fc1c7b
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Linux Linux Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
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