416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2023-52841

HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 4:15 p.m.

CVE-2023-52841

2024-05-2116:15:21

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux

kernel

media

vidtv

vulnerability

fix

kstrdup

kfree

memory leak

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.3%

JSON

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.

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd6eb12642e0c32692924ff359c07de4b781d78

git.kernel.org/stable/c/64863ba8e6b7651d994c6e6d506cc8aa2ac45edb

git.kernel.org/stable/c/980be4c3b0d51c0f873fd750117774561c66cf68

git.kernel.org/stable/c/a254ee1ddc592ae1efcce96b8c014e1bd2d5a2b4

git.kernel.org/stable/c/aae7598aff291d4d140be1355aa20930af948785

git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb13001411999adb158b39e76d94705eb2da100d