CVE-2023-53784

drm: bridge: dw_hdmi: fix connector access for scdc

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Published: December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:46 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: bridge: dw_hdmi: fix connector access for scdc Commit 5d844091f237 ("drm/scdc-helper: Pimp SCDC debugs") changed the scdc interface to pick up an i2c adapter from a connector instead. However, in the case of dw-hdmi, the wrong connector was being used to pass i2c adapter information, since dw-hdmi's embedded connector structure is only populated when the bridge attachment callback explicitly asks for it. drm-meson is handling connector creation, so this won't happen, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it by having scdc functions access dw-hdmi's current connector pointer instead, which is assigned during the bridge enablement stage. [narmstrong: moved Fixes tag before first S-o-b and added Reported-by tag]

Affected

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

6.4 ≤ v < 6.4.56.4 ≤ v < 6.55d844091f2370f01752c3129b147861b9dcd3d986.4
Vendor states this is fixed in 552f79aa9e801ed4f74d6b3221af78042ba4f235 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 98703e4e061fb8715c7613cd227e32cdfd136b23 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)

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