CVE-2026-43290 (GCVE-0-2026-43290)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 13:11 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:27
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Title
media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure Return buffers if streaming fails to start due to uvc_pm_get() error. This bug may be responsible for a warning I got running while :; do yavta -c3 /dev/video0; done on an xHCI controller which failed under this workload. I had no luck reproducing this warning again to confirm. xhci_hcd 0000:09:00.0: HC died; cleaning up usb 13-2: USB disconnect, device number 2 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 29386 at drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1803 vb2_start_streaming+0xac/0x120
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
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Linux Linux Affected: 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc , < 69c32df23bed6001864779b965fa009bcd9a26de (git)
Affected: 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc , < a5c01f15809d1d2c319d8bfb11d071df11ab731c (git)
Affected: 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc , < 4cf3b6fd54ebb1ebc977bdc47fb6cfcf9a471a22 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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