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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

media: vidtv: mux: Add check and kfree for kstrdup

CVE-2023-52841

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.

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