What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-52563: drm/meson: fix memory leak on ->hpd_notify callback

• 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: 2024-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.15.61 before 5.15.134; from 5.17 before 6.1.56; from 6.2 before 6.5.6; 6.6-rc1, 6.6-rc2 — fixed in 5.15.134, 6.1.56, 6.5.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.134, 6.1.56, 6.5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099f0af9d98231bb74956ce92508e87cbcb896be
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b63e088887a8b82750e16762f77100ffa76cba
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66cb6d74f5a1b6eafe3370b56bf2cb575a91acbc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee335e0094add7fc2c7034e0534e1920d61d2078
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099f0af9d98231bb74956ce92508e87cbcb896be
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b63e088887a8b82750e16762f77100ffa76cba
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66cb6d74f5a1b6eafe3370b56bf2cb575a91acbc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee335e0094add7fc2c7034e0534e1920d61d2078

Get alerted when CVE-2023-52563 or the next vulnerability affects your stack