# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

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-2023-54018"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:49.081Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:53:42.124Z"
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-2023-54018"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54018.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54018"
title: "drm/msm/hdmi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm/hdmi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue\n\nAdd check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue as it may return\nNULL pointer and cause NULL pointer dereference in `hdmi_hdcp.c` and\n`hdmi_hpd.c`.\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517211/"
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