CVE-2026-68231 (GCVE-0-2026-68231)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:32
VLAI
Title
media: airspy: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: airspy: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(), vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued buffers leak. airspy_start_streaming() returned -ENODEV early when the USB device had been disconnected (s->udev == NULL) without returning any buffers that buf_queue() had already accepted. Take v4l2_lock first and jump to the existing err_clear_bit label, which already drains s->queued_bufs via vb2_buffer_done(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) before unlocking. This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < badceeb82a9d8d8e98d07859f3c89130ae1998b9 (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < 122ce0c0af629a8765ddf1adf6fb85c6db3d47cb (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < bcdf261c4c29077fc3da6449f7eda77357046205 (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < 877686a74ecdc93dcaee09dbac566e819059c9e7 (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < cd42623d698b59f1fe5768f78a4101c28d5feb2e (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < 73bd2779865372b1017d4f555b45270aa2d0d710 (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < 170fcc945bc094b1c956bf555c070692826a3eff (git)
Affected: 634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d , < 04344d0b4929caa94c0df72f767752aa0935ef5d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (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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