CVE 7.8 HIGH

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster_CVE-2026-43263

7.8 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster

When multi instances are created/destroyed, many interrupts happens
and structures for decoder are removed.
"struct vpu_instance" this structure is shared for all flow in the decoder,
so if the structure is not protected by lock, Null dereference
could happens sometimes.
IRQ Handler was spilt to two phases and Lock was added as well.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-43263
Source Linux
Published May 6, 2026 at 11:28
Modified May 8, 2026 at 12:41

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c
Affected Versions Linux Linux 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c
Linux Linux 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c
Linux Linux 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c
Linux Linux 6.8

References

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