CVE-2026-68209

media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
Updated: August 19, 2026 at 05:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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").

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.4 ≤ v < 5.10.2655.4 ≤ v < 5.15.2165.4 ≤ v < 6.1.1835.4 ≤ v < 6.12.1015.4 ≤ v < 6.18.425.4 ≤ v < 6.6.1485.4 ≤ v < 7.1.65.4 ≤ v < 7.25.4577bbf23b758848f0c4a50d346460b690c753024
Vendor states this is fixed in 29fce7bcb3b959f6d4fdcdff7d26330152fdf98d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3c0bd793b0083fd4639ba7f60d1e7db8c8ac459a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4872161e6fbe4e1783daea8bff79caddfae0fb82 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 668face37fdb6b6900645dc8777195498541c9a7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7c2c30e282745a83d332c3cf92d1c0bcc491ac54 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a8abecc638a7feb20b78fabd563b05e30c071331 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b5184b3f0e9d4cc47059ba1138c9a73d43d2493f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bbba3e260a62810a717b4442a3bb96d0ec0f6309 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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