CVE-2026-93071: media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path

Published Sep 17, 2026
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Updated

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

media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path

v4l2asyncnfaddfwnoderemote() allocates the asc, which is freed when v4l2asyncnfcleanup() is called.

Call v4l2asyncnfcleanup() properly in the driver paths.

Discovered with kmemleak after rmmod:

unreferenced object 0xffff000084526b80 (size 64): comm "modprobe", pid 185, jiffies 4295013512 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e8 0d ff bf 00 00 ff ff ................ 40 83 bc 84 00 00 ff ff 60 83 bc 84 00 00 ff ff @.............. backtrace (crc ac584083): [<00000000ffb081a7>] kmemleakalloc+0x38/0x44 [<00000000d2fd9301>] kmalloc+0x1b0/0x250 [<000000004dd5354d>] v4l2asyncnfaddfwnode+0x28/0x9c [<0000000067587657>] v4l2asyncnfaddfwnoderemote+0x3c/0x64

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Compensating control

    Fix the v4l2 driver cleanup path by calling v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() properly in the driver paths so the asc allocated in v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote() is freed on error/remove.

Event History

Sep 17, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·04:10 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·04:10 PM
Description

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