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CVE-2023-52789

kernel: tty: vcc: Add check for kstrdup() in vcc_probe()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 21, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: vcc: Add check for kstrdup() in vcc_probe()

Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error, if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference