CVE-2023-53378

drm/i915/dpt: Treat the DPT BO as a framebuffer

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 18, 2025 at 01:33 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/dpt: Treat the DPT BO as a framebuffer Currently i915_gem_object_is_framebuffer() doesn't treat the BO containing the framebuffer's DPT as a framebuffer itself. This means eg. that the shrinker can evict the DPT BO while leaving the actual FB BO bound, when the DPT is allocated from regular shmem. That causes an immediate oops during hibernate as we try to rewrite the PTEs inside the already evicted DPT obj. TODO: presumably this might also be the reason for the DPT related display faults under heavy memory pressure, but I'm still not sure how that would happen as the object should be pinned by intel_dpt_pin() while in active use by the display engine... (cherry picked from commit 779cb5ba64ec7df80675a956c9022929514f517a)

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.0 ≤ v < 6.1.236.0 ≤ v < 6.2.106.0 ≤ v < 6.36.2 ≤ v < 6.2.100dc987b699ce4266450d407d6d79d41eab88c5d06.3 rc16.3 rc26.3 rc36.3 rc4
Vendor states this is fixed in 3413881e1ecc3cba722a2e87ec099692eed5be28 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5390a02b4508416b9bee96674f141c68f89bafbc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c781c107731fc09ce4330c8c636b8446d0f72aa4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.23 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

5.5MEDIUMCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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