CVE-2026-43246 (GCVE-0-2026-43246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-05-06 11:28
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Title
media: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe() In one of the error paths in tw9906_probe(), the memory allocated in v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path.
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Linux Linux Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < e9a490937942f18205dac7b6b192975ef1369ae1 (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < 9548a8bbf511a252a9848f96220c6b95c9a3b918 (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < 0c33338514d8246280533a77091e6b6ee548c606 (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < ccb92def042a3636ed47f25a30bd553788e5191e (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < fb09d8b80046216646f1a344410cfa9cfa6c6c7c (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < 377a7756914364d72550fc86ca0f404ef1d96141 (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < 59420d5d9c46b084e21f9ea6ce79fc79ae9e414c (git)
Affected: a000e9a02b5885b1b69f691c80e346d102f94a88 , < cad237b6c875fbee5d353a2b289e98d240d17ec8 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.252 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.202 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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