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High 7.8Published May 6, 2026

CVE-2026-43263media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster When multi instances are created/destroyed, many interrupts happens and structures for decoder are removed. "struct vpu_instance" this structure is shared for all flow in the decoder, so if the structure is not protected by lock, Null dereference could happens sometimes. IRQ Handler was spilt to two phases and Lock was added as well.

CVSS
7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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
Modified
Record last updated
Oct 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c builds before 925b8f99f92fc968990ebb4ec49c96ac2d4e600b; from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c before ea316b784fe6a61b29131c98cddb24e651b1dcbc; from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c before d12bcf183ec7da4305d848068d15f18044eaf62a; from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c before e66ff2b08e4ee1c4d3b84f24818e5bcc178cc3a4
CNA record
linux linux_kernel
linux:linux_kernel
from 6.8 before 6.18.16; from 6.19 before 6.19.6
NVD

References

References

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CVE-2026-43263: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster | InfoSec Signals