CVE-2023-53239

drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc

Medium · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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/

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:22Z
    drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc
    cvelistv5