Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc
CVE-2023-53239
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc
As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/514154/
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Affected products
86- osv-coords83 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Patches
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/13fcfcb2a9a4787fe4e49841d728f6f2e9fa6911mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff771ed008b9cbffd0eab77985968364694ce3mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3975ea6eaffe26aec634b5c473e51dc76e73af62mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/49907c8873826ee771ba0ca1629e809c6479f617mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/82943a0730e00c14b03e25a4b2a1a9477ae89d7bmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc579a2ee8b2e20c152b24b437d094832d8c9c9emitre
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