CVE-2023-52861: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: bridge: it66121: Fix invalid connector dereference Fix the NULL pointer dereference when no monitor is connected, and the sound card is opened from userspace. Instead return an empty buffer (of zeroes) as the EDID information to the sound framework if there is no connector attached.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.19, before 6.1.63 (fixed in 6.1.63); from 6.2, before 6.5.12 (fixed in 6.5.12); from 6.6, before 6.6.2 (fixed in 6.6.2)

Published 2024-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.