CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53382
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: vidtv: fix NULL pointer dereference in vidtv_mux_push_si
syzbot reported a general protection fault in
vidtv_psi_ts_psi_write_into [1].
vidtv_mux_get_pid_ctx() can return NULL, but vidtv_mux_push_si() does
not check for this before dereferencing the returned pointer to access
the continuity counter. This leads to a general protection fault when
accessing a near-NULL address.
The root cause is that vidtv_mux_pid_ctx_init() does not check the
return value of vidtv_mux_create_pid_ctx_once() for PMT section PIDs.
If the allocation fails, the PID context is never created, but init
returns success. The subsequent vidtv_mux_push_si() call then gets
NULL from vidtv_mux_get_pid_ctx() and crashes.
Fix both the root cause (add error check in vidtv_mux_pid_ctx_init
for PMT PIDs) and add defensive NULL checks in vidtv_mux_push_si for
all vidtv_mux_get_pid_ctx() calls.
[1]
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
Workqueue: events vidtv_mux_tick
RIP: 0010:vidtv_psi_ts_psi_write_into+0x54a/0xbc0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:197
Call Trace:
<TASK>
vidtv_psi_table_header_write_into drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:799 [inline]
vidtv_psi_pmt_write_into+0x3b2/0xa70 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:1231
vidtv_mux_push_si+0x932/0xe80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:196
vidtv_mux_tick+0xe9b/0x1480 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:408
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10 < 5.10.260)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.211)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.177)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.144)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.95)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.37)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 7.1 < 7.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/232e4b313ea342672edf8947e067c0de4328405b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/353d9578951dd38bc9679308f5b618ceed1f20fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455bc12e7b73ab5a2dfcb47822e91e772bc6c42e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6df7e16d4f742c80add58995a6e69385b97aa9e6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d8bf3d8f91073f4db347ed3aa6302b56107499c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b28b12be6e8910489e6800ed93ea4d41dfe19683 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd923dadefadb9671b5ac341b672ff424d429c39 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0f5a1d7056980a0d512456fdb370cfb72bba86a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f965cf22dda7f512f4922415894c3e528269a4ae Patch