CVE-2023-52844: media: vidtv: psi: Add check for kstrdup
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-52844 is a medium (CVSS 6.2) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6.2, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 10Timeline
- 21-05-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: vidtv: psi: Add check for kstrdup Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.2MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.2MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST6.2MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.25%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
17%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.25% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu104 products
- linux< 5.15.0-100.110
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 5.15.0-1056.61
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905, < 3387490c89b10aeb4e71d78b65dbc9ba4b2385b9 | ≥ f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905, < d17269fb9161995303985ab2fe6f16cfb72152f9 | ≥ f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905, < 5c26aae3723965c291c65dd2ecad6a3240d422b0 | ≥ f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905, < 5cfcc8de7d733a1137b86954cc28ce99972311ad | ≥ f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905, < a51335704a3f90eaf23a6864faefca34b382490a | ≥ f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905, < 76a2c5df6ca8bd8ada45e953b8c72b746f42918d | 5.10
- linux_kernel≥ 5.10, < 5.10.201 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.139 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.63 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.5.12 | ≥ 6.6, < 6.6.2
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.1.64-1 | < 6.6.8-1
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