CVE-2026-68223

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68223
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68223.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-68223
Downstream
Published
2026-08-10T12:00:44Z
Modified
2026-08-21T03:30:19Z
Summary
media: meson: vdec: Fix memory leak in error path of vdec_open
Details

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

media: meson: vdec: Fix memory leak in error path of vdec_open

The vdec_open() function previously jumped directly to err_m2m_release when vdec_init_ctrls() failed, skipping release of the m2m context. This caused a resource leak.

Fix it by introducing a proper err_m2m_ctx_release label that calls v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(sess->m2m_ctx) before releasing the m2m device.

This was identified via kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff0000205d6878 (size 8): comm "v4l_id", pid 5289, jiffies 4294938580 hex dump (first 8 bytes): 40 d2 49 18 00 00 ff ff @.I..... backtrace (crc d3204599): kmemleak_alloc+0xc8/0xf0 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x60c/0x850 v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x1b4/0x2e8 [videodev] vdec_open+0x1f4/0x788 [meson_vdec] v4l2_open+0x144/0x460 [videodev] chrdev_open+0x1ac/0x500 do_dentry_open+0x3f0/0xfe8 vfs_open+0x68/0x320 do_open+0x2d8/0x9a8 path_openat+0x1d0/0x4f0 do_filp_open+0x190/0x380 do_sys_openat2+0xf8/0x1b0 __arm64_sys_openat+0x13c/0x1e8 invoke_syscall+0xdc/0x268 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x178/0x258 do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x70

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68223.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e
Fixed
5f97120d1a50c9efffe54425fac42bb7ef13ac86
Fixed
fb77d6f4580f316c9148b942af0028ee489d121e
Fixed
d9058a19731036c03a779bfe8c3ca0d9aa198599
Fixed
c6cd08a71a630f19b10c318e76e3c56e1dd10e00
Fixed
2cf0171ad594860e31723c671e37824ce12c01ea
Fixed
1391b75bf0119b5d37f1c1c3078d452a01967f9b
Fixed
99f3527bd1a27ff798d59177ed045b0dd87deaef
Fixed
940f161f734b25f175a95d2684c2021f6323693a

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68223.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.3.0
Fixed
5.10.265
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.216
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.183
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.148
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68223.json"