CVE-2023-54254 (GCVE-0-2023-54254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-30 12:15
Modified
2026-10-15 21:41
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/ttm: Don't leak a resource on eviction error On eviction errors other than -EMULTIHOP we were leaking a resource. Fix. v2: - Avoid yet another goto (Andi Shyti)
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Linux Linux Version: 403797925768d9fa870f5b1ebcd20016b397083b
Version: 403797925768d9fa870f5b1ebcd20016b397083b
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Version: 403797925768d9fa870f5b1ebcd20016b397083b
Version: 6c68fbafb9cd13e13476043fd9f6e10f792f685a
Version: 5.14.6   ≤
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