Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 9, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2023-53837
CVE-2023-53837
Description
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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Affected products
77- osv-coords75 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>= 5.14.0, < 5.15.112+ 74 more
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Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16e0e6fb4511c004a5a0987d5bd75d9bcfb2b175nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/19fe79ae816a7e3400df1eb4d27530bf9b8ae258nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8eca32b5b92a0be956a8934d7eddf4f70c107927nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f0e1ad5327a3499e7f09157cb714302a856e8a4nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a465353b9250802f87b97123e33a17f51277f0b1nvd
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