HighFix available
drm/shmem-helper: Remove another errant put in error path
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/shmem-helper: Remove another errant put in error path drm_gem_shmem_mmap() doesn't own reference in error code path, resulting in the dma-buf shmem GEM object getting prematurely freed leading to a later use-after-free.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 6.1.21, 6.2.8
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53084
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 11:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
drm/shmem-helper: Remove another errant put in error path
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 2 May 2025, 15:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/shmem-helper: Remove another errant put in error path drm_gem_shmem_mmap() doesn't own reference in error code path, resulting in the dma-buf shmem GEM object getting prematurely freed leading to a later use-after-free.
osv:CVE-2023-53084
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 6.1.21, 6.2.8
Complete source record
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