CVE-2023-53851

drm/msm/dp: Drop aux devices together with DP controller

HIGH
8.4
CVSS Score
Published: December 9, 2025 at 01:30 AM UTC
Updated: October 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dp: Drop aux devices together with DP controller Using devres to depopulate the aux bus made sure that upon a probe deferral the EDP panel device would be destroyed and recreated upon next attempt. But the struct device which the devres is tied to is the DPUs (drm_dev->dev), which may be happen after the DP controller is torn down. Indications of this can be seen in the commonly seen EDID-hexdump full of zeros in the log, or the occasional/rare KASAN fault where the panel's attempt to read the EDID information causes a use after free on DP resources. It's tempting to move the devres to the DP controller's struct device, but the resources used by the device(s) on the aux bus are explicitly torn down in the error path. The KASAN-reported use-after-free also remains, as the DP aux "module" explicitly frees its devres-allocated memory in this code path. As such, explicitly depopulate the aux bus in the error path, and in the component unbind path, to avoid these issues. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/542163/

Affected

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

v ≥ 6.0.76.0.7 ≤ v < 6.16.1 ≤ v < 6.1.1896.1 ≤ v < 6.3.136.1 ≤ v < 6.4.46.1 ≤ v < 6.52b57f726611e294dc4297dd48eb8c98ef1938e826.0.76.18768663188e4169333f66583e4d2432e65c421df
Vendor states this is fixed in 2fde37445807e6e6d7981402d0bf1be0e5d81291 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a7bfb2ad2184a1fba78be35209b6019aa8cc8d4d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e09ed06938807cb113cddd0708ed74bd8cdaff33 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ff1338a3bfaa2f35b5f49a434f2ad6884b75fafe (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.189 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

8.4HIGHLinux
Vector?

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