CVE-2023-53239
Moderate
drm/msm/mdp5: Add check for kzalloc
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/
Exploit probability
0.1%
Published
September 15, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2023-53239
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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/
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13fcfcb2a9a4787fe4e49841d728f6f2e9fa6911
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff771ed008b9cbffd0eab77985968364694ce3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3975ea6eaffe26aec634b5c473e51dc76e73af62
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49907c8873826ee771ba0ca1629e809c6479f617
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82943a0730e00c14b03e25a4b2a1a9477ae89d7b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc579a2ee8b2e20c152b24b437d094832d8c9c9e
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53239.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53239