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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2023-52844 json

media: vidtv: psi: Add check for kstrdup

published 2024-05-21 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-59557

cvss
6.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.201, 5.15.139, 6.1.63, 6.5.12, 6.6.2, 6.7
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.64-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.6.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52844

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-100.110
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1056.61
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1053.61
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1052.57
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1048.51
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1052.57
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1058.66
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1038.44

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52844

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-9.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-9.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-52844 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: media: vidtv: psi: Add check for kstrdup

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux
  • linux linux_kernel

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.