CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68216
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: pwc: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure
The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before
calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error
without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(),
vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued
buffers leak.
pwc's start_streaming() had two early returns that hit this trap:
-ENODEV when the USB device was already disconnected, and -ERESTARTSYS
when mutex_lock_interruptible() was interrupted by a signal. Call the
existing pwc_cleanup_queued_bufs() helper with VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED
before returning (matching the state already used by the
pwc_isoc_init() error path in the same function).
This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo:
Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0362ae30b61b3053ee3095c1b8f179197ec4f539 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7cc2634c3843a1414a0f6407aa17f1f91dee60 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975b2ee20e569d47821e4f6c9761b4664d48a6a4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4f8f629983f643333e49df90557805469bcbb25 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb16b79a2be2cec9c3ebe4147490817c4d8b1de3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d552852bf76b7dfb35b4593fc874d8dd2f1b1bf3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2f9fcacd81953dde6cb86312ab13ca13e689664 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa78e590852751d3ad32f33f6b4e210fe6ccbe9b git.kernel.org