CVE-2026-43246 PUBLISHED

media: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()

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: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()

In one of the error paths in tw9906_probe(), the memory allocated in v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to e9a490937942f18205dac7b6b192975ef1369ae1 (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to 9548a8bbf511a252a9848f96220c6b95c9a3b918 (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to 0c33338514d8246280533a77091e6b6ee548c606 (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to ccb92def042a3636ed47f25a30bd553788e5191e (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to fb09d8b80046216646f1a344410cfa9cfa6c6c7c (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to 377a7756914364d72550fc86ca0f404ef1d96141 (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to 59420d5d9c46b084e21f9ea6ce79fc79ae9e414c (excl.)
  • affected from a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 to cad237b6c875fbee5d353a2b289e98d240d17ec8 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.10 (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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