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GHSA-VQ2X-638J-2GQ9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-10 15:33 – Updated: 2026-08-10 15:33

Details

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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:00

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

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/956879b173c2cf782…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8f319eae96a3d718…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: fc2873aa4a21355593b55eb49ff534d31f81c584 , < 956879b173c2cf782fbc3d18947fd1da286359cf (git) Affected: fc2873aa4a21355593b55eb49ff534d31f81c584 , < e8f319eae96a3d718e810d52432020a2b77f5f60 (git)
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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GHSA-VQ2X-638J-2GQ9

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

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