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CVE-2023-53991

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CVE-2023-53991

Published: Dec 24, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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/

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f - < 8dbd54d679e3ab37be43bc1ed9f463dbf83a2259
affected
bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f - < bf661c5e3bc48973acb363c76e3db965d9ed26d0
affected
bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f - < 9e1e236acdc42b5c43ec8d7f03a39537e70cc309
affected
bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f - < 9fe3644c720ac87d150f0bba5a4ae86cae55afaf
affected
bb00a452d6f77391441ef7df48f7115dd459cd2f - < abc40122d9a69f56c04efb5a7485795f5ac799d1

Linux

Linux

affected
5.7
unaffected
0 - < 5.7
unaffected
5.10.173 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.99 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.16 - <= 6.1.*

+2 more versions

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