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GHSA-JW95-8MM2-JMGF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-04 18:31 – Updated: 2026-02-10 00:30

Details

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

drm/mediatek: mtk_drm_crtc: Add checks for devm_kcalloc

As the devm_kcalloc may return NULL, the return value needs to be checked to avoid NULL poineter dereference.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53534 (GCVE-0-2023-53534)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:46

Title

drm/mediatek: mtk_drm_crtc: Add checks for devm_kcalloc

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: mtk_drm_crtc: Add checks for devm_kcalloc As the devm_kcalloc may return NULL, the return value needs to be checked to avoid NULL poineter dereference.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6820 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b64b6dff15a38468b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62952905e195f7350…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67ea657c7891c2f86…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d569ae98ee549058…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bf1e3bd7da625ccf…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 31c5558dae0513bd2bae33ea37543f584c6c35a5 , < b64b6dff15a38468b8cd33fc7864fa4e02b0933a (git) Affected: 31c5558dae0513bd2bae33ea37543f584c6c35a5 , < 62952905e195f7350bc230cf0960a74ddbceed5d (git) Affected: 31c5558dae0513bd2bae33ea37543f584c6c35a5 , < 67ea657c7891c2f86a7750395640d9bdf2555926 (git) Affected: 31c5558dae0513bd2bae33ea37543f584c6c35a5 , < 7d569ae98ee5490585929be69fea68047679b7b2 (git) Affected: 31c5558dae0513bd2bae33ea37543f584c6c35a5 , < 5bf1e3bd7da625ccf9a22c8cb7d65271e6e47f4c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.5 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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