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🛡️ CVE-2023-54217 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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CVSS Score
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Description

Revert "drm/msm: Add missing check and destroy for alloc_ordered_workqueue"

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Revert "drm/msm: Add missing check and destroy for alloc_ordered_workqueue"

This reverts commit 643b7d0869cc7f1f7a5ac7ca6bd25d88f54e31d0.

A recent patch that tried to fix up the msm_drm_init() paths with

respect to the workqueue but only ended up making things worse:

First, the newly added calls to msm_drm_uninit() on early errors would

trigger NULL-pointer dereferences, for example, as the kms pointer would

not have been initialised. (Note that these paths were also modified by

a second broken error handling patch which in effect cancelled out this

part when merged.)

Second, the newly added allocation sanity check would still leak the

previously allocated drm device.

Instead of trying to salvage what was badly broken (and clearly not

tested), let's revert the bad commit so that clean and backportable

fixes can be added in its place.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/525107/

Affected software

CVE-2023-54217 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.3.0 up to 6.3.2)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

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CVE-2023-54217 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.3.0 6.3.2
unknown

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