Bug 2395660 (CVE-2023-53263)

Summary: CVE-2023-53263 kernel: drm/nouveau/disp: fix use-after-free in error handling of nouveau_connector_create
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-16 09:01:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/nouveau/disp: fix use-after-free in error handling of nouveau_connector_create

We can't simply free the connector after calling drm_connector_init on it.
We need to clean up the drm side first.

It might not fix all regressions from commit 2b5d1c29f6c4
("drm/nouveau/disp: PIOR DP uses GPIO for HPD, not PMGR AUX interrupts"),
but at least it fixes a memory corruption in error handling related to
that commit.