CVE-2023-54091

Linux Kernel - Memory Leak in DRM Client Target Cloned Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_target_cloned dmt_mode is allocated and never freed in this function. It was found with the ast driver, but most drivers using generic fbdev setup are probably affected. This fixes the following kmemleak report: backtrace: [<00000000b391296d>] drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm] [<00000000e45bb5b3>] drm_client_target_cloned.constprop.0+0x27b/0x480 [drm] [<00000000ed2d3a37>] drm_client_modeset_probe+0x6bd/0xf50 [drm] [<0000000010e5cc9d>] __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper] [<00000000909f82ca>] drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper] [<00000000063a69aa>] drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm] [<00000000a8c61525>] ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast] [<00000000987f19bb>] local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180 [<000000004fca231b>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0 [<0000000000b85301>] process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540 [<000000003375b17c>] worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0 [<00000000b0d43cd9>] kthread+0x29f/0x340 [<000000008d770833>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 unreferenced object 0xff11000333089a00 (size 128):

Scores

EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.3%

Details

Status published
Products (25)
linux/Kernel 2.6.35 - 4.14.322linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.291linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.251linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.123linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.42linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.188linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.4.7linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.35
Linux/Linux 1d42bbc8f7f9ce4d852692ef7aa336b133b0830a - 105275879a80503686a8108af2f5c579a1c5aef4
Linux/Linux 1d42bbc8f7f9ce4d852692ef7aa336b133b0830a - 4b596a6e2d2e0f9c14e4122506dd715f43fcd727
... and 15 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026