CVE-2023-53837 (GCVE-0-2023-53837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-09 01:29
Modified
2025-12-09 01:29
Severity ?
Summary
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/
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Linux Linux Version: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c
Version: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c
Version: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c
Version: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c
Version: 98659487b845c05b6bed85d881713545db674c7c
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