CVE-2023-53806 (GCVE-0-2023-53806)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:01 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:16
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Title
drm/amd/display: populate subvp cmd info only for the top pipe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: populate subvp cmd info only for the top pipe [Why] System restart observed while changing the display resolution to 8k with extended mode. Sytem restart was caused by a page fault. [How] When the driver populates subvp info it did it for both the pipes using vblank which caused an outof bounds array access causing the page fault. added checks to allow the top pipe only to fix this issue.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 92e6c79acad4b96efeff261d27bdbd8089a7dd24 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 375d192eb1f1d9229a6d994da7ba31f3582b106b (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 9bb10b7aaec3b6278f9cc410c17dcaa129bbbbf0 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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