FKIE_CVE-2023-53991

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-24 11:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:46
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned In the event that the topology requests resources that have not been created by the system (because they are typically not represented in dpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC blocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in "drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available") remain NULL but will still be returned out of dpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array containing num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs). To prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences typically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn't increase past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead. After all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of blocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform. ^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to _dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dbd54d679e3ab37be43bc1ed9f463dbf83a2259
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e1e236acdc42b5c43ec8d7f03a39537e70cc309
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe3644c720ac87d150f0bba5a4ae86cae55afaf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abc40122d9a69f56c04efb5a7485795f5ac799d1
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf661c5e3bc48973acb363c76e3db965d9ed26d0
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  "descriptions": [
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned\n\nIn the event that the topology requests resources that have not been\ncreated by the system (because they are typically not represented in\ndpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC\nblocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in\n\"drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available\")\nremain NULL but will still be returned out of\ndpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array\ncontaining num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs).\n\nTo prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences\ntypically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn\u0027t\nincrease past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead.\nAfter all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of\nblocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform.\n\n^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to\n_dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context.\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/"
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  "id": "CVE-2023-53991",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T06:46:29.910",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-24T11:15:52.000",
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  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
}



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