CVE-2026-43290

HIGH

media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure Return buffers if streaming fails to start due to uvc_pm_get() error. This bug may be responsible for a warning I got running while :; do yavta -c3 /dev/video0; done on an xHCI controller which failed under this workload. I had no luck reproducing this warning again to confirm. xhci_hcd 0000:09:00.0: HC died; cleaning up usb 13-2: USB disconnect, device number 2 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 29386 at drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1803 vb2_start_streaming+0xac/0x120

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

Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.18.16 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.6 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc - 4cf3b6fd54ebb1ebc977bdc47fb6cfcf9a471a22
Linux/Linux 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc - 69c32df23bed6001864779b965fa009bcd9a26de
Linux/Linux 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc - a5c01f15809d1d2c319d8bfb11d071df11ab731c
linux/linux_kernel 6.17 - 6.18.16
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026