Inappropriate coding practices In linux
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel ASoC pxa audio driver. The function filter() used kasprintf() to allocate a formatted string but did not check whether the allocation succeeded before passing the result to strcmp(). If memory allocation fails and kasprintf() returns NULL, this results in a NULL pointer dereference when calling strcmp(), which can trigger a kernel crash and denial of service.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
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