CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-52841

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-05-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401, CWE-476

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10 < 5.10.201) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.139) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.63) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.12) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.6 < 6.6.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References