CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-93071

Unknown
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the media bcm2835-unicam driver failed to free the asc structure allocated by v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote() in error and module removal paths. This caused a memory leak detected by kmemleak after rmmod.

Risk Assessment

The memory leak can gradually exhaust kernel resources when the module is repeatedly loaded and unloaded, potentially causing system instability in extreme cases.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that properly calls v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() in the driver paths.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote() allocates the asc, which is freed when v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() is called. Call v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() properly in the driver paths. Discovered with kmemleak after rmmod: unreferenced object 0xffff000084526b80 (size 64): comm "modprobe", pid 185, jiffies 4295013512 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e8 0d ff bf 00 00 ff ff ................ 40 83 bc 84 00 00 ff ff 60 83 bc 84 00 00 ff ff @.......`....... backtrace (crc ac584083): [<00000000ffb081a7>] kmemleak_alloc+0x38/0x44 [<00000000d2fd9301>] __kmalloc+0x1b0/0x250 [<000000004dd5354d>] __v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode+0x28/0x9c [<0000000067587657>] __v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote+0x3c/0x64

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