CVE-2026-45928

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure In wave5_vpu_open_enc() and wave5_vpu_open_dec(), a vpu instance is allocated via kzalloc(). If the subsequent allocation for inst->codec_info fails, the functions return -ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated instance, causing a memory leak. Fix this by calling kfree() on the instance in this error path to ensure it is properly released. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s wave5 media driver. When a vpu instance is allocated, and a subsequent allocation for codec_info fails, the driver returns an error without freeing the previously allocated vpu instance. This oversight leads to a memory leak, which could potentially impact system stability or resource availability over time.

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.