CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89870
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: zoran: Avoid freeing a registered video_device twice
zoran_init_video_device() installs zoran_vdev_release() as the
video_device release callback through zoran_template. After
video_register_device() succeeds, video_unregister_device() drops the
registered video_device reference and the V4L2 core eventually invokes
that release callback, which kfree()s the video_device.
zoran_exit_video_devices() called video_unregister_device() and then
kfree(zr->video_dev), so device teardown could free the same
video_device twice.
Remove the direct kfree() and clear the cached pointer after
unregistering. The pre-registration failure path keeps its manual free
because the video_device was not registered there.
This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by
manual source review.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0735e0b5a96761a9ce277a238e834008ad92a0a5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ad6cf27505017a6794f5f96c31218c2291e951b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d99d8d0d895489064783601a516bd45812fa992 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/672dbccf4351370dad002d3c78dbb29ca1588f22 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4acac8cdc005b2d14b6cef5e215d264212857f3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1c4f3885df1f09bcab5296d86834d104f865e86 git.kernel.org