Medium [CVE-2026-68228] Linux kernel media subsystem: Denial of Service via race condition in wave5 encoder
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68228 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26, Red Hat package: kernel.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Move src_buf Removal to finish_encode During encoder processing, there is a case where the IRQ response could return the buffer back to userspace via v4l2_m2m_buf_done call.
In this time, userspace could queue up this same buffer before start_encode removes the index from the ready queue. This would then lead to a case where the buffer in the ready queue could be a self loop due to the WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new) call in __list_add.
When __list_del is finally called, the loop is already made so nothing points back to ready queue list head and pointers are poisoned. A buffer should not be marked as DONE before the buffer is removed from m2m ready queue.
A local user could exploit a race condition during encoder processing, where a buffer is returned to userspace before being fully removed from the ready queue. This could lead to a corrupted buffer list, potentially causing a system crash and resulting in a denial of service.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 4.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-367.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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