CVE-2026-43263

HIGH

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster When multi instances are created/destroyed, many interrupts happens and structures for decoder are removed. "struct vpu_instance" this structure is shared for all flow in the decoder, so if the structure is not protected by lock, Null dereference could happens sometimes. IRQ Handler was spilt to two phases and Lock was added as well.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 6.18.16 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.6 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c - d12bcf183ec7da4305d848068d15f18044eaf62a
Linux/Linux 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c - e66ff2b08e4ee1c4d3b84f24818e5bcc178cc3a4
Linux/Linux 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c - ea316b784fe6a61b29131c98cddb24e651b1dcbc
linux/linux_kernel 6.8 - 6.18.16
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026