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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-52563 json

drm/meson: fix memory leak on ->hpd_notify callback

published 2024-03-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-57187

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

drm/meson: fix memory leak on ->hpd_notify callback

The EDID returned by drm_bridge_get_edid() needs to be freed.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.134, 6.1.56, 6.5.6, 6.6
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.64-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52563

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-94.104
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1053.58
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1051.59
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1050.55
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1046.49
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1050.55
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1056.64
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.42

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52563

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-52563 updated cvss 3.3

kernel: drm/meson: memory leak on ->hpd_notify callback

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
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References

Sources

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