CVE-2026-68225 (GCVE-0-2026-68225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:01
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Title
media: i2c: alvium: fix critical pointer access in alvium_ctrl_init
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: i2c: alvium: fix critical pointer access in alvium_ctrl_init The current implementation of alvium_ctrl_init creates several controls in function alvium_ctrl_init and uses the returned pointer without check. That can cause write access over NULL-pointer for several controls. The reworked code checks the pointers before adding flags.
Severity
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0a7af872915ee34668edf7e4018648a226d9e7f9 , < 4bacfda44d36f165f6cb57bea408912886400ffa (git)
Affected: 0a7af872915ee34668edf7e4018648a226d9e7f9 , < 7337c88205ed0ffc654f40266be0d3c3eb15fb29 (git)
Affected: 0a7af872915ee34668edf7e4018648a226d9e7f9 , < eb2f934646aefb06314cecd1deb020794829b207 (git)
Affected: 0a7af872915ee34668edf7e4018648a226d9e7f9 , < 4f6f28ff24709710c08557c127b3e4c3fb1b4159 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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