CVE-2026-43223 PUBLISHED

media: pvrusb2: fix URB leak in pvr2_send_request_ex

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: pvrusb2: fix URB leak in pvr2_send_request_ex

When pvr2_send_request_ex() submits a write URB successfully but fails to submit the read URB (e.g. returns -ENOMEM), it returns immediately without waiting for the write URB to complete. Since the driver reuses the same URB structure, a subsequent call to pvr2_send_request_ex() attempts to submit the still-active write URB, triggering a 'URB submitted while active' warning in usb_submit_urb().

Fix this by ensuring the write URB is unlinked and waited upon if the read URB submission fails.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to da524c939b1e5ba17f10db4bde4bdaf569ffcda6 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to cf459d6ffa5e150ef3744b897f936ff24b52bd15 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 77a63f8efc434ddb04667ed632aade58301a2f13 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 4ba5c7a1aade7090172cbffd4d120bf4cf5ccbde (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 58dd722b6c3debcddb4684fb256c90fee7f063e5 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 2011929f0e4cf6a0a34dd6205911b12276904453 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 5f3ac816861c3b8a5d1a3645b17dc3a99d668d94 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to a8333c8262aed2aedf608c18edd39cf5342680a7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 5.10.252 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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