CVE-2023-53239

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53239
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53239.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53239
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-15T14:22:13.289Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:33:02.429873Z
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/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc
Details

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

drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc

As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/514154/

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53239.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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
1cff7440a86e04a613665803b42034c467f035fa
Fixed
3975ea6eaffe26aec634b5c473e51dc76e73af62
Fixed
49907c8873826ee771ba0ca1629e809c6479f617
Fixed
82943a0730e00c14b03e25a4b2a1a9477ae89d7b
Fixed
bc579a2ee8b2e20c152b24b437d094832d8c9c9e
Fixed
37ff771ed008b9cbffd0eab77985968364694ce3
Fixed
13fcfcb2a9a4787fe4e49841d728f6f2e9fa6911

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53239.json"