CVE-2023-53324: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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/

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.15, before 4.19.295 (fixed in 4.19.295); from 4.20, before 5.4.257 (fixed in 5.4.257); from 5.5, before 5.10.195 (fixed in 5.10.195); from 5.11, before 5.15.132 (fixed in 5.15.132); from 5.16, before 6.1.53 (fixed in 6.1.53); from 6.2, before 6.4.16 (fixed in 6.4.16); …

Published 2025-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.