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FKIE_CVE-2023-52789

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:43
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: vcc: Add check for kstrdup() in vcc_probe() Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error, if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
References
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416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c80f48912b5bd4965352d1a9a989e21743a4a06Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cebc86481bf16049e266f6774d90f2fd4f8d5d2Patch
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416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d81ffb87aaa75f842cd7aa57091810353755b3e6Patch
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/460284dfb10b207980c6f3f7046e33446ceb38acPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a24a31826246b15477399febd13292b0c9f0ee9Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ef41a7f33ffe1a335e7db7e1564ddc6afad47ccPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c80f48912b5bd4965352d1a9a989e21743a4a06Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cebc86481bf16049e266f6774d90f2fd4f8d5d2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f8771757b130383732195497e47fba2aba76d3aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/909963e0c16778cec28efb1affc21558825f4200Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d81ffb87aaa75f842cd7aa57091810353755b3e6Patch

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