CVE-2026-68208 (GCVE-0-2026-68208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:00
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Title
media: ti: vpe: Fix the error code of devm_kzalloc() in vip_probe_slice()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: ti: vpe: Fix the error code of devm_kzalloc() in vip_probe_slice() In vip_probe_slice(), the error check for devm_kzalloc() incorrectly uses PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() which returns 0 for NULL pointer. Return -ENOMEM for devm_kzalloc() failure.
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fc2873aa4a21355593b55eb49ff534d31f81c584 , < 956879b173c2cf782fbc3d18947fd1da286359cf (git)
Affected: fc2873aa4a21355593b55eb49ff534d31f81c584 , < e8f319eae96a3d718e810d52432020a2b77f5f60 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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