CVE-2026-53379

Updated on 19 Jul 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: i2c: ov8856: free control handler on error in ov8856_init_controls()

The control handler wasn’t freed if adding controls failed, add an error exit label and convert the existing error return to use it.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-meta @ 5.4.0 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned