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CVE-2023-3220

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.1-rc8. dpu_crtc_atomic_check in drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_crtc.c lacks check of the return value of kzalloc() and will cause the NULL Pointer Dereference.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 6.3 — fixed in 6.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93340e10b9c5fc86730d149636e0aa8b47bb5a34
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93340e10b9c5fc86730d149636e0aa8b47bb5a34

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