CVE-2023-53239

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/

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2025-09-15

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13fcfcb2a9a4787fe4e49841d728f6f2e9fa6911
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff771ed008b9cbffd0eab77985968364694ce3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3975ea6eaffe26aec634b5c473e51dc76e73af62
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49907c8873826ee771ba0ca1629e809c6479f617
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82943a0730e00c14b03e25a4b2a1a9477ae89d7b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc579a2ee8b2e20c152b24b437d094832d8c9c9e