CVE-2026-43189: media: v4l2-async: Fix error handling on steps after finding a match

Published May 6, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: v4l2-async: Fix error handling on steps after finding a match

Once an async connection is found to be matching with an fwnode, a sub-device may be registered (in case it wasn't already), its bound operation is called, ancillary links are created, the async connection is added to the sub-device's list of connections and removed from the global waiting connection list. Further on, the sub-device's possible own notifier is searched for possible additional matches.

Fix these specific issues:

- If v4l2asyncmatchnotify() failed before the sub-notifier handling, the async connection was unbound and its entry removed from the sub-device's async connection list. The latter part was also done in v4l2asyncmatchnotify().

- The async connection's sd field was only set after creating ancillary links in v4l2asyncmatchnotify(). It was however dereferenced in v4l2asyncunbindsubdevone(), which was called on error path of v4l2asyncmatchnotify() failure.

Affected Software

5 affected components
Linux Linux kernel
Linux Linux kernel>=6.6<6.6.128
Linux Linux kernel>=6.7<6.12.75
Linux Linux kernel>=6.13<6.18.16
Linux Linux kernel>=6.19<6.19.6

Event History

May 6, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·11:27 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·11:27 AM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·12:16 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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