CVE-2025-38227 media: vidtv: Terminating the subsequent process of initialization failure

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CVE-2025-38227 and CVE-2024-57834 Vulnerabilities in vidtv CVE-2025-38227, published on July 4, 2025, addresses a termination issue related to initialization failure in the vidtv component. CVE-2024-57834, published on February 27, 2025, fixes a null pointer dereference in the vidtv_mux_stop_thread function. Both vulnerabilities affect users of the vidtv media framework. 3 sources 39