CVE-2026-43189
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Memory Corruption in Linux Kernel V4L2 Async Subsystem
Publication date: 2026-05-06
Last updated on: 2026-05-11
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: v4l2-async: Fix error handling on steps after finding a match
Once an async connection is found to be matching with an fwnode, a
sub-device may be registered (in case it wasn't already), its bound
operation is called, ancillary links are created, the async connection
is added to the sub-device's list of connections and removed from the
global waiting connection list. Further on, the sub-device's possible own
notifier is searched for possible additional matches.
Fix these specific issues:
- If v4l2_async_match_notify() failed before the sub-notifier handling,
the async connection was unbound and its entry removed from the
sub-device's async connection list. The latter part was also done in
v4l2_async_match_notify().
- The async connection's sd field was only set after creating ancillary
links in v4l2_async_match_notify(). It was however dereferenced in
v4l2_async_unbind_subdev_one(), which was called on error path of
v4l2_async_match_notify() failure.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.7 (inc) to 6.12.75 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.13 (inc) to 6.18.16 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.19 (inc) to 6.19.6 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.6 (inc) to 6.6.128 (exc) |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
