CVE-2023-53223

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53223
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53223.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53223
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
SUSE (4)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
SUSE (4)
Published
2025-09-15T14:21:51Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:48Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
Details

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

drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue

Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue as it may return NULL pointer and cause NULL pointer dereference.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517646/

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53223.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300
Fixed
3e18f157faeeb59034404569e8e07cbe1c0030a7
Fixed
9257974858ee847b2e1fd552691b8ba5c2fc1c7b
Fixed
3a9a4a9725c60f04326b5019a52ce15aee808506
Fixed
540c66180afd59309a442d3bf1f2393464c8b4c5
Fixed
5dfe7a5386fde5a656ca06602b31bf50e26954cd
Fixed
25a6499b1a53d854eda2b161b5c8a20296515dbe
Fixed
759ea5677c362fb1e3edc667260ba9f409dc931d
Fixed
115906ca7b535afb1fe7b5406c566ccd3873f82b

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53223.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.12.0
Fixed
4.14.308
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.276
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.235
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.173
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.99
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53223.json"