CVE-2026-43231 PUBLISHED

media: radio-keene: fix memory leak in error path

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: radio-keene: fix memory leak in error path

Fix a memory leak in usb_keene_probe(). The v4l2 control handler is initialized and controls are added, but if v4l2_device_register() or video_register_device() fails afterward, the handler was never freed, leaking memory.

Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() call in the err_v4l2 error path to ensure the control handler is properly freed for all error paths after it is initialized.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to ad85bb5623079a35bd400f51de2e2fbc2170bdb2 (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to 242b0aabb1866024a7995a767ac330c158b39aa4 (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to 2fe28a63d598235595a9601e0d8fdc7c8f4fd575 (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to 27c508f61963013fdf29097578284099ee7a85a4 (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to 7fa9754f48cb8eefa566156be341e63d313247e5 (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to 1d8558a232ecb187e8e0328d6347a125f437a0fc (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to de204d87e7d61859937272fe30cbdd46a4cfb10a (excl.)
  • affected from 1bf20c3a0c616f44359c573b533d06bae960ee45 to b8bf939d77c0cd01118e953bbf554e0fa15e9006 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.4 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.4 (excl.)
  • 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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