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
2026-03-20T12:33:04.578455Z
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"