CVE-2023-53324 drm/msm/mdp5: Don't leak some plane state

What is CVE-2023-53324?

CVE-2023-53324 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Sep 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/msm/mdp5: Don't leak some plane state

Apparently no one noticed that mdp5 plane states leak like a sieve ever since we introduced plane_state->commit refcount a few years ago in 21a01abbe32a ("drm/atomic: Fix freeing connector/plane state too early by tracking commits, v3.")

Fix it by using the right helpers.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/551236/

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53324?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53324?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2023-53324 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53324 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-2023-53324, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53324, GHSA-jxp8-g35h-7h84, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53324.