CVE-2025-68808 (GCVE-0-2025-68808)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:29 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
media: vidtv: initialize local pointers upon transfer of memory ownership
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: vidtv: initialize local pointers upon transfer of memory ownership
vidtv_channel_si_init() creates a temporary list (program, service, event)
and ownership of the memory itself is transferred to the PAT/SDT/EIT
tables through vidtv_psi_pat_program_assign(),
vidtv_psi_sdt_service_assign(), vidtv_psi_eit_event_assign().
The problem here is that the local pointer where the memory ownership
transfer was completed is not initialized to NULL. This causes the
vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry() function to fail, and
in the flow that jumps to free_eit, the memory that was freed by
vidtv_psi_*_table_destroy() can be accessed again by
vidtv_psi_*_event_destroy() due to the uninitialized local pointer, so it
is freed once again.
Therefore, to prevent use-after-free and double-free vulnerability,
local pointers must be initialized to NULL when transferring memory
ownership.
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < c342e294dac4988c8ada759b2f057246e48c5108
(git)
Affected: 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < 12ab6ebb37789b84073e83e4d9b14a5e0d133323 (git) Affected: 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < 3caa18d35f1dabe85a3dd31bc387f391ac9f9b4e (git) Affected: 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < fb9bd6d8d314b748e946ed6555eb4a956ee8c4d8 (git) Affected: 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < a69c7fd603bf5ad93177394fbd9711922ee81032 (git) Affected: 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < 30f4d4e5224a9e44e9ceb3956489462319d804ce (git) Affected: 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 , < 98aabfe2d79f74613abc2b0b1cef08f97eaf5322 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.248 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.198 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.160 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.3 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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