Medium 5.5Published May 6, 2026

CVE-2026-43217media: iris: gen2: Add sanity check for session stop

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 5:23 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: gen2: Add sanity check for session stop In iris_kill_session, inst->state is set to IRIS_INST_ERROR and session_close is executed, which will kfree(inst_hfi_gen2->packet). If stop_streaming is called afterward, it will cause a crash. Add a NULL check for inst_hfi_gen2->packet before sendling STOP packet to firmware to fix that.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from 11712ce70f8e52fc94365b48ee15aec806b02422 before 72846441c5f6396de9face04e77fa3d28e9915b6; from 11712ce70f8e52fc94365b48ee15aec806b02422 before 75992ba43072674fd4767df62a1fe2048565cc60; 11712ce70f8e52fc94365b48ee15aec806b02422 builds before 9aa8d63d09cfc44d879427cc5ba308012ca4ab8e	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.15 before 6.18.16; from 6.19 before 6.19.6	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72846441c5f6396de9face04e77fa3d28e9915b6	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75992ba43072674fd4767df62a1fe2048565cc60	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aa8d63d09cfc44d879427cc5ba308012ca4ab8e	patch

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