Fixes for few of the issues reported in ASAN test

Sandesh Venkateshrequested to merge
asan_fixes_1 into main

EVS 26.444 BE test passes.
pytests results: 588 failed, 381 skipped

MLD scores:
Original inputs:
347 < 5
109 < 10
132 > 10.

Edited by Sandesh Venkatesh

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