CVE-2026-93236

media: meson: vdec: fix NULL pointer deref in vdec_try_fmt_common

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Published: September 24, 2026 at 03:33 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: meson: vdec: fix NULL pointer deref in vdec_try_fmt_common When VIDIOC_TRY_FMT is called with an unsupported pixel format on the OUTPUT queue, vdec_try_fmt_common() falls back to V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2. However, if a distro has locally patched MPEG2 support out (as it has been broken for some time) the platform format table does not contain MPEG2 so find_format() returns NULL and the subsequent dereference of fmt_out->max_width triggers a NULL pointer dereference. Fix this by falling back to the first format in the platform's format array instead of hardcoding V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2. This is always valid since every platform defines at least one format.

Affected

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

3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e5.3
Vendor states this is fixed in 20aa934ace6917262ff579a73ec018d06a7bad1c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 276f28672bb6d5d5feca78db4219c7b5adf1be26 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3839b6be2279fc4f558723f2c0fbfc9c42070958 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 680a89683197cdfe4e03e6fd7755454c647d39c1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 96dafbae77f50bfe2228bcfedcd8652c5e5f08e8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c620906fb1b2ad75d408ea9d06040d66952d4a31 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d61ba609c3226af3c84268ba606ea06ee63e511b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f2375a308640e401c142c5426d52c3d10e016d25 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (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 6.6.157 (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)

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