CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-40336

LowCVSS 2.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

libgphoto2 versions up to and including 2.5.33 have a memory leak in ptp_unpack_Sony_DPD() in camlibs/ptp2/ptp-pack.c. When processing a secondary enumeration list (introduced in 2024+ Sony cameras), the function overwrites dpd->FORM.Enum.SupportedValue with a new calloc() without freeing the previous allocation, leaking the array and its strings on every property descriptor parse.

Risk Assessment

Repeated memory leaks while working with Sony cameras can increase memory usage and lead to instability or crashes in applications using libgphoto2. The issue only affects environments handling newer Sony cameras.

Recommendation

Update libgphoto2 to a version containing commit 404ff02c75f3cb280196fc260a63c4d26cf1a8f6. Until then, limit or monitor Sony camera operations that repeatedly parse descriptors.

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Original NVD description (English source)

libgphoto2 is a camera access and control library. Versions up to and including 2.5.33 have a memory leak in `ptp_unpack_Sony_DPD()` in `camlibs/ptp2/ptp-pack.c` (lines 884–885). When processing a secondary enumeration list (introduced in 2024+ Sony cameras), the function overwrites dpd->FORM.Enum.SupportedValue with a new calloc() without freeing the previous allocation from line 857. The original array and any string values it contains are leaked on every property descriptor parse. Commit 404ff02c75f3cb280196fc260a63c4d26cf1a8f6 fixes the issue.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS