Bug 2536429 (CVE-2026-93071)

Summary: CVE-2026-93071 kernel: media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's bcm2835-unicam media driver. This vulnerability involves a memory leak where an allocated asynchronous node context (asc) is not properly released during error handling or module removal. Over time, this can lead to resource exhaustion and potentially result in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition, making the system unavailable.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:48:03 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path

v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote() allocates the asc, which is freed when
v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() is called.

Call v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() properly in the driver paths.

Discovered with kmemleak after rmmod:

unreferenced object 0xffff000084526b80 (size 64):
  comm "modprobe", pid 185, jiffies 4295013512
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e8 0d ff bf 00 00 ff ff  ................
    40 83 bc 84 00 00 ff ff 60 83 bc 84 00 00 ff ff  @.......`.......
  backtrace (crc ac584083):
    [<00000000ffb081a7>] kmemleak_alloc+0x38/0x44
    [<00000000d2fd9301>] __kmalloc+0x1b0/0x250
    [<000000004dd5354d>] __v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode+0x28/0x9c
    [<0000000067587657>] __v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote+0x3c/0x64