CVE-2023-53288

Published: Sep 16, 2025Modified: Jan 14, 2026

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed. This fixes the following kmemleak report: drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm] drm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm] __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper] drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper] drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm] ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast] local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180 work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0 process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540 worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0 kthread+0x29f/0x340 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Affected (7)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

Linux

1 product

Linux Kernel

Configuration A

7 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	Before 5.4.251
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.11 to 5.15.123
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.16 to 6.1.42
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.5 to 5.10.188
Linux Linux Kernel	From 6.2 to 6.4.7
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.5 rc1
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.5 rc2