CVE-2023-53388 drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path mtkdrmbind can fail, in which case drmdevput is called, destroying the drmdevice object. However a pointer to it was still being held in the private object, and that pointer...

CVE-2023-53388

Summary of CVE-2023-53388 : In the Linux kernel, the DRM/Mediatek driver had a dangling pointer in the error path of the bind sequence. When mtk_drm_bind() fails, the code previously called drm_dev_put() to destroy the drm_device, but a private object still held a pointer to that device. If a sus...

CVE-2023-53388 drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path mtkdrmbind can fail, in which case drmdevput is called, destroying the drmdevice object. However a pointer to it was still being held in the private object, and that pointer...

CVE-2023-53388 drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path mtkdrmbind can fail, in which case drmdevput is called, destroying the drmdevice object. However a pointer to it was still being held in the private object, and that pointer...

CVE-2023-53388

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path mtkdrmbind can fail, in which case drmdevput is called, destroying the drmdevice object. However a pointer to it was still being held in the private object, and that pointer...

Linux Kernel Security Vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Linux kernel that stems from an uncleaned dangling pointer that could lead to a null pointer dereference...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-8231

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Due to use of a dangling pointer, libcurl 7.29.0 through 7.71.1 can use the wrong connection when sending data. CVE-2020-8231 Note that Nessus relies on the...

kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers

A dangling pointer vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. When an async control is written, a copy of a pointer is made in the file handle that started the operation. If the user closes that file descriptor, its structure will be freed and there will be one dangling pointer per pending asyn...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-0494

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This issue occurs due to a dangling pointer in DeepCopyPointerClasses that can be exploited by ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo and...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-4283

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the XkbCopyNames function left a dangling pointer to freed memory, resulting in...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-37765

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - drm/nouveau: prime: fix ttmbodelayeddelete oops Fix an oops in ttmbodelayeddelete which results from dererencing a dangling pointer: Oops: general protection...

kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers

A dangling pointer vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. When an async control is written, a copy of a pointer is made in the file handle that started the operation. If the user closes that file descriptor, its structure will be freed and there will be one dangling pointer per pending asyn...

kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers

A dangling pointer vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. When an async control is written, a copy of a pointer is made in the file handle that started the operation. If the user closes that file descriptor, its structure will be freed and there will be one dangling pointer per pending asyn...

CVE-2025-54626

Pointer dangling vulnerability in the cjwindow module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect function stability...

CVE-2025-54626: Use After Free

Pointer dangling vulnerability in the cjwindow module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect function stability...

kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers

A dangling pointer vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. When an async control is written, a copy of a pointer is made in the file handle that started the operation. If the user closes that file descriptor, its structure will be freed and there will be one dangling pointer per pending asyn...

xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in X.Org Server. This flaw occurs if a client explicitly destroys the compositor overlay window aka COW, where Xserver leaves a dangling pointer to that window in the CompScreen structure, which will later trigger a use-after-free issue. The Overlay Window use-after-free...

SUSE CVE-2025-38394

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: appletb-kbd: fix memory corruption of inputhandlerlist In appletbkbdprobe an input handler is initialised and then registered with input core through inputregisterhandler. When this happens input core will add the input...

ghostscript security update

An update is available for ghostscript. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF...

kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers

A dangling pointer vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. When an async control is written, a copy of a pointer is made in the file handle that started the operation. If the user closes that file descriptor, its structure will be freed and there will be one dangling pointer per pending asyn...