CVE-2025-68808

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in vidtv_channel_si_init Memory Ownership Transfer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: vidtv: initialize local pointers upon transfer of memory ownership vidtv_channel_si_init() creates a temporary list (program, service, event) and ownership of the memory itself is transferred to the PAT/SDT/EIT tables through vidtv_psi_pat_program_assign(), vidtv_psi_sdt_service_assign(), vidtv_psi_eit_event_assign(). The problem here is that the local pointer where the memory ownership transfer was completed is not initialized to NULL. This causes the vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry() function to fail, and in the flow that jumps to free_eit, the memory that was freed by vidtv_psi_*_table_destroy() can be accessed again by vidtv_psi_*_event_destroy() due to the uninitialized local pointer, so it is freed once again. Therefore, to prevent use-after-free and double-free vulnerability, local pointers must be initialized to NULL when transferring memory ownership.

Scores

EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.0%

Details

Status published
Products (22)
linux/Kernel 5.10.0 - 5.10.248linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.198linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.160linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.120linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.64linux
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 - 12ab6ebb37789b84073e83e4d9b14a5e0d133323
Linux/Linux 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 - 30f4d4e5224a9e44e9ceb3956489462319d804ce
Linux/Linux 3be8037960bccd13052cfdeba8805ad785041d70 - 3caa18d35f1dabe85a3dd31bc387f391ac9f9b4e
... and 12 more
Published Jan 13, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026