# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53288"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:21.150Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:28:28.283Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53288"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53288.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53288"
title: "drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe\n\nWhen a new mode is set to modeset-\u003emode, the previous mode should be freed.\nThis fixes the following kmemleak report:\n\ndrm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm]\ndrm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm]\n__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper]\ndrm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper]\ndrm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm]\nast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast]\nlocal_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180\nwork_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0\nprocess_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540\nworker_thread+0x70a/0xed0\nkthread+0x29f/0x340\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d580017bdb9b3e930b6009e467e5e1589f8ca8a"},{"version":"a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f2a12f64347f535c6ef55fa7eb36a2874d69b59"},{"version":"a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1369d0c586ad44f2d18fe2f4cbc5bcb24132fa71"},{"version":"a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"917bef37cfaca07781c6fbaf6cd9404d27e64e6f"},{"version":"a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8108a494639e56aea77e7196a1d6ea89792b9d4a"},{"version":"a2889606636d135148de101fe3311dfea67baf1c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2329cc7a101af1a844fbf706c0724c0baea38365"},{"version":"0cc98b5963f8886887aab0ded61970bdccfc2350","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.8.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.123","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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