CVE-2023-31081

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c in the Linux kernel 6.2. There is a NULL pointer dereference in vidtv_mux_stop_thread. In vidtv_stop_streaming, after dvb->mux=NULL occurs, it executes vidtv_mux_stop_thread(dvb->mux).

Affected products

Linux kernel: 6.2

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210782
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+UBctDXyiosaiR7YNKCs8k0aWu4gU+YutRcnC+TDJkXpHjQag%40mail.gmail.com/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0003/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210782
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+UBctDXyiosaiR7YNKCs8k0aWu4gU+YutRcnC+TDJkXpHjQag%40mail.gmail.com/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0003/

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