Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 24, 2026· Updated Jul 21, 2026
CVE-2026-53066
CVE-2026-53066
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/sun4i: backend: fix error pointer dereference
The function drm_atomic_get_plane_state() can return an error pointer and is not checked for it. Add error pointer check.
Detected by Smatch: drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c:496 sun4i_backend_atomic_check() error: 'plane_state' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/06277983eca4a31d3c2114fa33d99a6e82484b11nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47038159c559824f4dbfb5b0d87b9b3416663372nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/779c2f10743fc021f2f0ebe2b188cadfb973c5e4nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf615b90a11a39a28e313be5e508e94bcde72016nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9bef62f1bb9fcb38223730657af20f4c6283c16nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea51fd96aca01381e8f1ac0c671a57b7619193bbnvdPatch
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