Revert "media: v4l2-dev: fix error handling in __video_register_device()" (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89741
HIGH 7.8

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · centile 6 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "media: v4l2-dev: fix error handling in __video_register_device()" This reverts commit 2a934fdb01db6458288fc9386d3d8ceba6dd551a. The intentions of that patch were good, but it doesn't work. The idea is that if device_register fails, you have to do a put_device to let the ref counter release resources. However, the V4L2 API says that if video_register_device() fails, then you have to call video_device_release(), which kfree()s the video_device struct. But the put_device() will already have freed the struct, so you end up in a double-free scenario. There is not really a good way of fixing this without breaking video_register_device() into two parts, one that initializes everything, and one that does the actual device_register, and then converting all V4L2 drivers to this new model. That is a massive job, and it is very unlikely that device_register will fail. So rather than ending up in a double-free scenario, just revert this patch, and in that case we'll have a small memory leak. Which is a lot more robust.

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Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

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Avis du CERT-FR

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e5c8e62ae551e0ad2e15412aa0c57c2856d59677 < 8b998c171ed875e402e1fd1c5cd619e4ca05e9c1 ; affected 8b451a9a46f2bfc510e6d5c2492df91647586184 < 3de14b4f681a1b3c6d375d98d9d37a55ebb85349 ; affected b6be1f5633eae200af2527e9eeb7f51be5739b0f < 8027f82c0f5474ed72448e160ee9778051fa1f49 ; affected ae7b143e05b36fc69d6571751855946cc45064c6 < 2ac009a65d2385e9f0799eaf9d9694a29153a161 ; affected 2429bb9fad88c8fa84c4956b0a21cf5afe5e92b7 < 712ca1cf756de2557a116e0df55791bac0c9f99e ; affected 2a934fdb01db6458288fc9386d3d8ceba6dd551a < aad08b5f67d2a8116e1a00bce2611c1513b10bce
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 6.16 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

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