CVE-2026-43218 (GCVE-0-2026-43218)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-06 11:28
Modified
2026-05-11 22:20
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: i2c/tw9903: Fix potential memory leak in tw9903_probe() In one of the error paths in tw9903_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 Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
Version: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34
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