CVE-2026-89899

media: cec: disable delayed work before freeing an interrupted transmit

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: cec: disable delayed work before freeing an interrupted transmit cec_transmit_msg_fh() drops adap->lock to wait for a blocking transmit in wait_for_completion_killable(). If that wait is interrupted by a signal, cancel_delayed_work_sync() can run before the CEC kthread arms the reply timeout via schedule_delayed_work(&data->work) in cec_transmit_done_ts(). The work is then armed after the cancel, and the data is freed with its delayed_work still pending: ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: ... hint: cec_wait_timeout Use disable_delayed_work_sync(): it cancels the work and disables it, so the later schedule_delayed_work() becomes a no-op and the work cannot be re-armed. The data is freed right after, so it need not be re-enabled.

Affected

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

2781b86d7e45de09befa5ace296b66787146561f4.18.194.19.24.20490d84f6d73c12f4204241cff8651eed60aae914e448dfd6d3ec944411f6575bc24e4f8baa1e297f
Vendor states this is fixed in 0fbd5c2327020858c45b2d1c65775d64cdeca523 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9a951931d4b4084acd64fa55fc3672a9da45ddf9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9c6ceb0949227c1f0cf0e19393daec72d9889871 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a3adb63b121937b97f7fdc51e96564c7c799538b (fixed)
Affected range stops below 4.19, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.20 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.51 (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
Vector?

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