CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89522

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's media staging/ipu7 driver, isys_register_devices() registers the V4L2 async notifier, but the probe error path (isys_probe()) only calls isys_unregister_devices(), which does not unregister or clean up the notifier. As a result, the notifier stays on the global notifier_list while the enclosing struct ipu7_isys is freed by devres, leading to list corruption and a use-after-free the next time the list is walked.

Risk Assessment

This can cause kernel memory corruption and use-after-free, leading to system crash (denial of service) or potentially kernel code execution.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that calls isys_notifier_cleanup() before isys_unregister_devices() on the probe error path as well. Until then, avoid configurations that trigger ipu7 driver probe failures.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path isys_register_devices() registers the V4L2 async notifier via isys_notifier_init(). If a subsequent probe step such as isys_fw_log_init() fails, isys_probe() jumps to the out_cleanup label which only calls isys_unregister_devices(). That helper tears down the video devices, subdevices, V4L2 device and media device, but never unregisters or cleans up the async notifier. As a result the notifier stays chained in the global notifier_list while the enclosing struct ipu7_isys is freed by devres, leading to list corruption and a use-after-free the next time the list is walked. The remove path already does the right thing by calling isys_notifier_cleanup() before isys_unregister_devices(). Mirror that on the probe error path so the notifier is unregistered and cleaned up before the device is torn down.

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