media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(), vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued buffers leak. sun4i_csi_start_streaming() returned -EINVAL when no matching CSI format could be found, before any setup (scratch buffer allocation, pipeline start) had been performed. The remaining error paths already converge on the err_clear_dma_queue label, which calls return_all_buffers(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) under csi->qlock. Jump to that label directly: the intermediate err_disable_device / err_disable_pipeline / err_free_scratch_buffer labels are skipped, which is correct because nothing they would undo has happened yet. This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42, 7.1.6, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 8 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-68209
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-93x6-mg2w-rrg6
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29fce7bcb3b959f6d4fdcdff7d26330152fdf98d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c2c30e282745a83d332c3cf92d1c0bcc491ac54
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c0bd793b0083fd4639ba7f60d1e7db8c8ac459a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4872161e6fbe4e1783daea8bff79caddfae0fb82
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8abecc638a7feb20b78fabd563b05e30c071331
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5184b3f0e9d4cc47059ba1138c9a73d43d2493f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/668face37fdb6b6900645dc8777195498541c9a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbba3e260a62810a717b4442a3bb96d0ec0f6309
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Sources
- CVE-2026-68209 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-68209 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-93x6-mg2w-rrg6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-68209 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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