Bug 2420353 (CVE-2023-53837) - CVE-2023-53837 kernel: drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down
Summary: CVE-2023-53837 kernel: drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53837
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-09 18:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:05:04 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down

In case of early initialisation errors and on platforms that do not use
the DPU controller, the deinitilisation code can be called with the kms
pointer set to NULL.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/525099/
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-09 17:58:22 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120956-CVE-2023-53837-2bf8@gregkh/T
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