CVE-2026-46240 (GCVE-0-2026-46240)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-28 09:41
Modified
2026-08-05 12:30
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix use-after-free in iris_release_internal_buffers() The recent change in commit 1dabf00ee206 ("media: iris: gen1: Destroy internal buffers after FW releases") introduced a regression where session_release_buf() may free the buffer. The caller, iris_release_internal_buffers(), continued to access `buffer` after the call, leading to a potential use-after-free. Fix this by setting BUF_ATTR_PENDING_RELEASE before calling session_release_buf(), and reverting the flag if the call fails. This ensures no dereference occurs after potential freeing.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 7cde76db8883ec8a3d1456068079ecadbfb15ca5
Version: 1dabf00ee206eceb0f08a1fe5d1ce635f9064338
Version: 1dabf00ee206eceb0f08a1fe5d1ce635f9064338
Version: d4457f23ac0130240053a34be663f0fade3bb371
Version: 6.18.16   ≤
Version: 6.19.6   ≤
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