CVE-2023-53284

drm/msm/dpu: check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in dpu_writeback_init()

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm/dpu: check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in dpu_writeback_init()

Because of the possilble failure of devm_kzalloc(), dpu_wb_conn might

be NULL and will cause null pointer dereference later.

Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/512277/

[DB: fixed typo in commit message]

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
0.00146 · 3.6th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T08:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 08:11Z
    drm/msm/dpu: check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in dpu_writeback_init()
    cvelistv5