CVE-2023-52789: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.14.331 (fixed in 4.14.331); from 4.15, before 4.19.300 (fixed in 4.19.300); from 4.20, before 5.4.262 (fixed in 5.4.262); from 5.5, before 5.10.202 (fixed in 5.10.202); from 5.11, before 5.15.140 (fixed in 5.15.140); from 5.16, before 6.1.64 (fixed in 6.1.64); …

Published 2024-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.