CVE-2026-68228 PUBLISHED

media: chips-media: wave5: Move src_buf Removal to finish_encode

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

media: chips-media: wave5: Move src_buf Removal to finish_encode

During encoder processing, there is a case where the IRQ response could return the buffer back to userspace via v4l2_m2m_buf_done call. In this time, userspace could queue up this same buffer before start_encode removes the index from the ready queue. This would then lead to a case where the buffer in the ready queue could be a self loop due to the WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new) call in __list_add.

When __list_del is finally called, the loop is already made so nothing points back to ready queue list head and pointers are poisoned.

A buffer should not be marked as DONE before the buffer is removed from m2m ready queue. Move removal entirely to finish_encode.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to 1ee2b2b189ddc7b23c8eee1145de42b8bd19fb06 (excl.)
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to f24ca8b53fe15db40957bdaa40c9aa68e1557bbe (excl.)
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to d681227ce43bfd74b6eb69beecd9b0bec1fd8b48 (excl.)
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to b20157147089a9c16a38c7810e2fe6f2df8e3277 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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