Bug 2396415 (CVE-2023-53388)

Summary: CVE-2023-53388 kernel: drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 14:03:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path

mtk_drm_bind() can fail, in which case drm_dev_put() is called,
destroying the drm_device object. However a pointer to it was still
being held in the private object, and that pointer would be passed along
to DRM in mtk_drm_sys_prepare() if a suspend were triggered at that
point, resulting in a panic. Clean the pointer when destroying the
object in the error path to prevent this from happening.