CVE-2026-93071: media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path

Severity: unknown
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-09-17 · updated 2026-10-19

Description

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

Affected products

Linux kernel: 6.10 — fixed in 7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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