{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53851 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53851 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53851 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53851 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53851 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53851/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53851/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53851","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53851/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53851","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53851","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53851","GHSA-wxfw-x294-cg88","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-53851","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53851"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel DRM","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's DisplayPort driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code via EDID reading.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.4,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm/dp: Drop aux devices together with DP controller\n\nUsing devres to depopulate the aux bus made sure that upon a probe\ndeferral the EDP panel device would be destroyed and recreated upon next\nattempt.\n\nBut the struct device which the devres is tied to is the DPUs\n(drm_dev-\u003edev), which may be happen after the DP controller is torn\ndown.\n\nIndications of this can be seen in the commonly seen EDID-hexdump full\nof zeros in the log, or the occasional/rare KASAN fault where the\npanel's attempt to read the EDID information causes a use after free on\nDP resources.\n\nIt's tempting to move the devres to the DP controller's struct device,\nbut the resources used by the device(s) on the aux bus are explicitly\ntorn down in the error path. The KASAN-reported use-after-free also\nremains, as the DP aux \"module\" explicitly frees its devres-allocated\nmemory in this code path.\n\nAs such, explicitly depopulate the aux bus in the error path, and in the\ncomponent unbind path, to avoid these issues.\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/542163/","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"drm/msm/dp: Drop aux devices together with DP controller","id":"CVE-2023-53851","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_secret_store","id":"CVE-2023-53852"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"iavf: use internal state to free traffic IRQs","id":"CVE-2023-53850"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-09","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-03","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's DisplayPort driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code via EDID reading.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53851/"}