CVE-2023-53095 drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

What is CVE-2023-53095?

CVE-2023-53095 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

The LRU mechanism may look up a resource in the process of being removed from an object. The locking rules here are a bit unclear but it looks currently like res->bo assignment is protected by the LRU lock, whereas bo->resource is protected by the object lock, while *clearing* of bo->resource is also protected by the LRU lock. This means that if we check that bo->resource points to the LRU resource under the LRU lock we should be safe. So perform that check before deciding to swap out a bo. That avoids dereferencing a NULL bo->resource in ttm_bo_swapout().

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53095?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53095?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-53095 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53095 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53095, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53095, GHSA-qq4h-f4qp-wr7q, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53095.