CVE-2023-53288

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53288
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53288.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53288
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-16T08:11:21.150Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:46:44.475356Z
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/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe
Details

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

drm/client: Fix memory leak in drmclientmodeset_probe

When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed. This fixes the following kmemleak report:

drmmodeduplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm] drmclientmodeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm] _drmfbhelperinitialconfigandunlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drmkmshelper] drmfbdevclienthotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drmkmshelper] drmclientregister+0x169/0x240 [drm] astpciprobe+0x142/0x190 [ast] localpciprobe+0xdc/0x180 workforcpufn+0x4e/0xa0 processonework+0x8b7/0x1540 workerthread+0x70a/0xed0 kthread+0x29f/0x340 retfromfork+0x1f/0x30

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53288.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
a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c
Fixed
5d580017bdb9b3e930b6009e467e5e1589f8ca8a
Fixed
5f2a12f64347f535c6ef55fa7eb36a2874d69b59
Fixed
1369d0c586ad44f2d18fe2f4cbc5bcb24132fa71
Fixed
917bef37cfaca07781c6fbaf6cd9404d27e64e6f
Fixed
8108a494639e56aea77e7196a1d6ea89792b9d4a
Fixed
2329cc7a101af1a844fbf706c0724c0baea38365
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0cc98b5963f8886887aab0ded61970bdccfc2350

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53288.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.9.0
Fixed
5.4.251
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.188
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.123
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.4.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53288.json"