drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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/
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-53991
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8m95-4p4w-6hv6
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dbd54d679e3ab37be43bc1ed9f463dbf83a2259
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf661c5e3bc48973acb363c76e3db965d9ed26d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e1e236acdc42b5c43ec8d7f03a39537e70cc309
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe3644c720ac87d150f0bba5a4ae86cae55afaf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abc40122d9a69f56c04efb5a7485795f5ac799d1
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Sources
- CVE-2023-53991 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-53991 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8m95-4p4w-6hv6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2023-53991 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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