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CVE-2023-52841 (GCVE-0-2023-52841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:31 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:34
VLAI
Title
media: vidtv: mux: Add check and kfree for kstrdup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: vidtv: mux: Add check and kfree for kstrdup Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Moreover, use kfree() in the later error handling in order to avoid memory leak.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-21 17:57 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c2f78f0cb294aa6f009d3a170f4ee8ad199ba5da , < 64863ba8e6b7651d994c6e6d506cc8aa2ac45edb (git)
Affected: c2f78f0cb294aa6f009d3a170f4ee8ad199ba5da , < 980be4c3b0d51c0f873fd750117774561c66cf68 (git)
Affected: c2f78f0cb294aa6f009d3a170f4ee8ad199ba5da , < a254ee1ddc592ae1efcce96b8c014e1bd2d5a2b4 (git)
Affected: c2f78f0cb294aa6f009d3a170f4ee8ad199ba5da , < cb13001411999adb158b39e76d94705eb2da100d (git)
Affected: c2f78f0cb294aa6f009d3a170f4ee8ad199ba5da , < aae7598aff291d4d140be1355aa20930af948785 (git)
Affected: c2f78f0cb294aa6f009d3a170f4ee8ad199ba5da , < 1fd6eb12642e0c32692924ff359c07de4b781d78 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.201 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.139 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.63 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.12 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.2 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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