CVE-2026-89879 PUBLISHED

media: s2255: bound JPEG frame size before copying into the buffer

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

media: s2255: bound JPEG frame size before copying into the buffer

s2255_fillbuff() memcpy()s vc->jpg_size bytes of a captured JPEG/MJPEG frame into the vb2 plane. vc->jpg_size is taken verbatim from the S2255_MARKER_FRAME header the device sends (pdword[4] in save_frame()) and, unlike the frame payload length just above it, is never bounded:

<pre>payload = le32_to_cpu(pdword[3]); if (payload > vc->req_image_size) /* payload is checked ... */ return -EINVAL; vc->pkt_size = payload; vc->jpg_size = le32_to_cpu(pdword[4]); /* ... jpg_size is not */ </pre>

A malicious or malfunctioning device can therefore report a jpg_size larger than the destination vb2 plane, and the memcpy() writes past it. jpg_size is a signed int, so a value with the top bit set also turns into a huge length.

Reject a frame whose jpg_size is negative or exceeds the plane size before copying it.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to 32a595dd3e8634544e5cfbc47f906dff3d3c1ef8 (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to 4b6f7bccc6559ae5c54573c284fe76eafc9989b2 (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to 2542516a147bfad740e7e411c251b639fad260ff (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to 79f58f900dd221ab04ea74bf4eaf79fa3b0fcc77 (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to d2ecaaab6a4f165abb54cdf61be60030b5782bf8 (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to 68d664f1b4efe525e99154b7058fcb0378bdaff7 (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to dd739517560c8d0ec4463a53e717bf40b988d7da (excl.)
  • affected from 38f993ad8b1fe4caf9e989caf6e2a25aff3bbaf7 to e504cc888f42999dd76b6a43788c422610f2aad2 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.27 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.27 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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