CVE-2026-89522

media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path

isys_register_devices() registers the V4L2 async notifier via isys_notifier_init(). If a subsequent probe step such as isys_fw_log_init() fails, isys_probe() jumps to the out_cleanup label which only calls isys_unregister_devices(). That helper tears down the video devices, subdevices, V4L2 device and media device, but never unregisters or cleans up the async notifier.

As a result the notifier stays chained in the global notifier_list while the enclosing struct ipu7_isys is freed by devres, leading to list corruption and a use-after-free the next time the list is walked.

The remove path already does the right thing by calling isys_notifier_cleanup() before isys_unregister_devices(). Mirror that on the probe error path so the notifier is unregistered and cleaned up before the device is torn down.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a516d36bdc3d8373f904af57c95e76d6f921cf1c to before 2a8dd9fd12f3f6b21207cec8f50c92cd428e6b81Affected
  • a516d36bdc3d8373f904af57c95e76d6f921cf1c to before 323c411fb63122e8cef5b833032d69d59a838559Affected
  • a516d36bdc3d8373f904af57c95e76d6f921cf1c to before d7f48aa7d60c65d3e6d5312c27f17d5525a245fbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.17Affected
  • before 6.17Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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