CVE-2023-52841

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

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

Published

2024-05-21

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-401, CWE-476

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd6eb12642e0c32692924ff359c07de4b781d78
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64863ba8e6b7651d994c6e6d506cc8aa2ac45edb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/980be4c3b0d51c0f873fd750117774561c66cf68
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a254ee1ddc592ae1efcce96b8c014e1bd2d5a2b4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aae7598aff291d4d140be1355aa20930af948785
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb13001411999adb158b39e76d94705eb2da100d