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CVE-2026-45928 (GCVE-0-2026-45928)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:17 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:17
VLAI
Title
media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure In wave5_vpu_open_enc() and wave5_vpu_open_dec(), a vpu instance is allocated via kzalloc(). If the subsequent allocation for inst->codec_info fails, the functions return -ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated instance, causing a memory leak. Fix this by calling kfree() on the instance in this error path to ensure it is properly released.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c , < 52defdd4034db1a34bb48006f889d66a3629224b (git)
Affected: 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c , < 1de71556cbd6e1d0d26fb86b9b3bb8caa0df8495 (git)
Affected: 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c , < 32e9e45cf7e3422d21fa64535588d3572faf71c3 (git)
Affected: 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c , < a519e21e32398459ba357e67b541402f7295ee1b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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