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

drm/i915: Fix system suspend without fbdev being initialized

If fbdev is not initialized for some reason - in practice on platforms
without display - suspending fbdev should be skipped during system
suspend, fix this up. While at it add an assert that suspending fbdev
only happens with the display present.

This fixes the following:

[ 91.227923] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
[ 91.254598] Filesystems sync: 0.025 seconds
[ 91.270518] Freezing user space processes
[ 91.272266] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 91.272686] OOM killer disabled.
[ 91.272872] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[ 91.274295] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 91.659622] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000001c8
[ 91.659981] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 91.660252] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[ 91.660511] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 91.660647] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 91.660875] CPU: 4 PID: 917 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7+ #54
[ 91.661185] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20221117gitfff6d81270b5-9.fc37 unknown
[ 91.661680] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x19/0x30
[ 91.661914] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 62 d3 ff ff 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 00 15 03 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 13 75 06 5b c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 df 5b eb b4 0f 1f 40
[ 91.662840] RSP: 0018:ffffa1e8011ffc08 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 91.663087] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000001c8 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 91.663440] RDX: ffff8be455eb0000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 00000000000001c8
[ 91.663802] RBP: ffff8be459440000 R08: ffff8be459441f08 R09: ffffffff8e1432c0
[ 91.664167] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 91.664532] R13: 00000000000001c8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8be442f4fb20
[ 91.664905] FS: 00007f28ffc16740(0000) GS:ffff8be4bb900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 91.665334] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 91.665626] CR2: 00000000000001c8 CR3: 0000000114926006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[ 91.665988] PKRU: 55555554
[ 91.666131] Call Trace:
[ 91.666265] <TASK>
[ 91.666381] intel_fbdev_set_suspend+0x97/0x1b0 [i915]
[ 91.666738] i915_drm_suspend+0xb9/0x100 [i915]
[ 91.667029] pci_pm_suspend+0x78/0x170
[ 91.667234] ? __pfx_pci_pm_suspend+0x10/0x10
[ 91.667461] dpm_run_callback+0x47/0x150
[ 91.667673] __device_suspend+0x10a/0x4e0
[ 91.667880] dpm_suspend+0x134/0x270
[ 91.668069] dpm_suspend_start+0x79/0x80
[ 91.668272] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x11b/0x890
[ 91.668526] pm_suspend.cold+0x270/0x2fc
[ 91.668737] state_store+0x46/0x90
[ 91.668916] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11b/0x200
[ 91.669153] vfs_write+0x1e1/0x3a0
[ 91.669336] ksys_write+0x53/0xd0
[ 91.669510] do_syscall_64+0x58/0xc0
[ 91.669699] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x18e/0x1c0
[ 91.669980] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x18e/0x1c0
[ 91.670278] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40
[ 91.670524] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0xc0
[ 91.670717] ? __irq_exit_rcu+0x3d/0x140
[ 91.670931] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
[ 91.671202] RIP: 0033:0x7f28ffd14284

v2: CC stable. (Jani)

References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8015
(cherry picked from commit 9542d708409a41449e99c9a464deb5e062c4bee2)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00012.

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Linux Linux unaffected
Version Status Constraints
f8cc091e05305231c8f747ca253a90ff0cea60b9 affected
< 27b5871abd5cc068c549fd23062c82e257fc0b9c
f8cc091e05305231c8f747ca253a90ff0cea60b9 affected
< 8ed572d5a0f1509e691a75a0e3d3588050371f1e
f8cc091e05305231c8f747ca253a90ff0cea60b9 affected
< 8038510b1fe443ffbc0e356db5f47cbb8678a594
Linux Linux affected
Version Status Constraints
6.1 affected
—
0 unaffected
< 6.1
6.1.18 unaffected
≤ 6.1.*
6.2.5 unaffected
≤ 6.2.*
6.3 unaffected
≤ *

Configuration 1 [-]

OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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Linux Linux Kernel — —

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History

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-476
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Fix system suspend without fbdev being initialized If fbdev is not initialized for some reason - in practice on platforms without display - suspending fbdev should be skipped during system suspend, fix this up. While at it add an assert that suspending fbdev only happens with the display present. This fixes the following: [ 91.227923] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) [ 91.254598] Filesystems sync: 0.025 seconds [ 91.270518] Freezing user space processes [ 91.272266] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds) [ 91.272686] OOM killer disabled. [ 91.272872] Freezing remaining freezable tasks [ 91.274295] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds) [ 91.659622] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000001c8 [ 91.659981] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 91.660252] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ 91.660511] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 91.660647] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 91.660875] CPU: 4 PID: 917 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7+ #54 [ 91.661185] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20221117gitfff6d81270b5-9.fc37 unknown [ 91.661680] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x19/0x30 [ 91.661914] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 62 d3 ff ff 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 00 15 03 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 13 75 06 5b c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 df 5b eb b4 0f 1f 40 [ 91.662840] RSP: 0018:ffffa1e8011ffc08 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 91.663087] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000001c8 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 91.663440] RDX: ffff8be455eb0000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 00000000000001c8 [ 91.663802] RBP: ffff8be459440000 R08: ffff8be459441f08 R09: ffffffff8e1432c0 [ 91.664167] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 91.664532] R13: 00000000000001c8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8be442f4fb20 [ 91.664905] FS: 00007f28ffc16740(0000) GS:ffff8be4bb900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 91.665334] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 91.665626] CR2: 00000000000001c8 CR3: 0000000114926006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ 91.665988] PKRU: 55555554 [ 91.666131] Call Trace: [ 91.666265] <TASK> [ 91.666381] intel_fbdev_set_suspend+0x97/0x1b0 [i915] [ 91.666738] i915_drm_suspend+0xb9/0x100 [i915] [ 91.667029] pci_pm_suspend+0x78/0x170 [ 91.667234] ? __pfx_pci_pm_suspend+0x10/0x10 [ 91.667461] dpm_run_callback+0x47/0x150 [ 91.667673] __device_suspend+0x10a/0x4e0 [ 91.667880] dpm_suspend+0x134/0x270 [ 91.668069] dpm_suspend_start+0x79/0x80 [ 91.668272] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x11b/0x890 [ 91.668526] pm_suspend.cold+0x270/0x2fc [ 91.668737] state_store+0x46/0x90 [ 91.668916] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11b/0x200 [ 91.669153] vfs_write+0x1e1/0x3a0 [ 91.669336] ksys_write+0x53/0xd0 [ 91.669510] do_syscall_64+0x58/0xc0 [ 91.669699] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x18e/0x1c0 [ 91.669980] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x18e/0x1c0 [ 91.670278] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40 [ 91.670524] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0xc0 [ 91.670717] ? __irq_exit_rcu+0x3d/0x140 [ 91.670931] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc [ 91.671202] RIP: 0033:0x7f28ffd14284 v2: CC stable. (Jani) References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8015 (cherry picked from commit 9542d708409a41449e99c9a464deb5e062c4bee2)
Title drm/i915: Fix system suspend without fbdev being initialized
References
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-07T15:21:33.220Z

Reserved: 2025-10-07T15:16:59.664Z

Link: CVE-2023-53678

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-10-07T16:15:51.917

Modified: 2026-02-26T23:08:59.863

Link: CVE-2023-53678

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-10-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-53678 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-10-08T13:35:31Z

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