CVE-2023-53991

Linux Kernel 5.7.0-6.2.2 DoS via NULL Pointer Dereference in DPU Resource Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned In the event that the topology requests resources that have not been created by the system (because they are typically not represented in dpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC blocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in "drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available") remain NULL but will still be returned out of dpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array containing num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs). To prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences typically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn't increase past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead. After all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of blocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform. ^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to _dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/

Scores

EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.3%

Details

Status published
Products (16)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.99linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.16linux
linux/Kernel 5.7.0 - 5.10.173linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.2.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 5.10.173 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.99 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.7
Linux/Linux 6.1.16 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.3 - 6.2.*
... and 6 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026