CVE-2023-53837 Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.194.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEVEL-15347488
  • published25 Feb 2026
  • disclosed24 Feb 2026

Introduced: 24 Feb 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-devel to version 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: fix NULL-deref on snapshot tear down

In case of early initialisation errors and on platforms that do not use the DPU controller, the deinitilisation code can be called with the kms pointer set to NULL.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/525099/

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1