Vulnerability CVE-2023-52841
Published: 2024-05-21

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.

 References:
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/cb13001411999adb158b39e76d94705eb2da100d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aae7598aff291d4d140be1355aa20930af948785
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd6eb12642e0c32692924ff359c07de4b781d78
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