FKIE_CVE-2026-68231

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-10 13:20 - Updated: 2026-08-19 17:20
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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").
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04344d0b4929caa94c0df72f767752aa0935ef5d
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/122ce0c0af629a8765ddf1adf6fb85c6db3d47cb
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/170fcc945bc094b1c956bf555c070692826a3eff
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73bd2779865372b1017d4f555b45270aa2d0d710
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/877686a74ecdc93dcaee09dbac566e819059c9e7
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/badceeb82a9d8d8e98d07859f3c89130ae1998b9
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcdf261c4c29077fc3da6449f7eda77357046205
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd42623d698b59f1fe5768f78a4101c28d5feb2e
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    {
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            "drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c"
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  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: airspy: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure\n\nThe vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before\ncalling start_streaming().  If start_streaming() returns an error\nwithout first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(),\nvb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued\nbuffers leak.\n\nairspy_start_streaming() returned -ENODEV early when the USB device had\nbeen disconnected (s-\u003eudev == NULL) without returning any buffers that\nbuf_queue() had already accepted.  Take v4l2_lock first and jump to the\nexisting err_clear_bit label, which already drains s-\u003equeued_bufs via\nvb2_buffer_done(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) before unlocking.\n\nThis mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb (\"media: uvcvideo:\nReturn queued buffers on start_streaming() failure\")."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2026-68231",
  "lastModified": "2026-08-19T17:20:38.803",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-08-10T13:20:11.370",
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  "vulnStatus": "Received"
}



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