CVE-2026-89873

media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 AM 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: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts The HEVC SPS control carries the short-term and long-term RPS counts that decoder drivers use to walk the matching EXT SPS dynamic arrays. Reject SPS values that exceed the HEVC limits of 64 short-term sets and 32 long-term references so drivers cannot later index beyond those controls. Also reject EXT SPS ST RPS entries whose negative or positive picture counts exceed the 16-entry arrays, or whose combined delta-POC count exceeds the HEVC DPB maximum.

Affected

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

7.0c9a59dc2acc72789d5c778af080d1e65af84862c
Vendor states this is fixed in 30f85a7c59113a8844b276efc010085a34f912e9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 796b5c6d4f1615d59d5d8fe5a38fae6bfdfe878e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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