Medium [CVE-2026-68208] Denial of service in media subsystem via incorrect error handling
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68208.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: ti: vpe: Fix the error code of devm_kzalloc() in vip_probe_slice() In vip_probe_slice(), the error check for devm_kzalloc() incorrectly uses PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() which returns 0 for NULL pointer. Return -ENOMEM for devm_kzalloc() failure.
An incorrect error check in the `vip_probe_slice()` function, specifically when handling memory allocation failures from `devm_kzalloc()`, could lead to a denial of service. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause system instability or unresponsiveness.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-476.
Red Hat lists Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 as not affected.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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