CVE-2023-53837

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down In case of early initialisation errors and on platforms that do not use the DPU controller, the deinitilisation code can be called with the kms pointer set to NULL. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/525099/

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.37-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.3.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.3.7-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.3.7-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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