CVE-2026-43218 (GCVE-0-2026-43218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:20
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Title
media: i2c/tw9903: Fix potential memory leak in tw9903_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: i2c/tw9903: Fix potential memory leak in tw9903_probe() In one of the error paths in tw9903_probe(), the memory allocated in v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path.
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Linux Linux Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < e54aa17c968c4de2c5f7b7ea390c63d33c07513b (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < 32f0493506313775d3bd448de34762b6538da6bd (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < 92537a15780b6d0281fd8286f93fbc3652e35f48 (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < 9cb9eca33d20316ed3c7a938793b8735ac3e128b (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < a114918270f0d95c607d69b03a244e6afe54813f (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < cc7aeed33e4f55c76f35f0fca73e4dfe12a63a3a (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < add02a3fb1fd71b004f0ed824cbac00f850de558 (git)
Affected: 0890ec19c65def8c8e445931b026e0fa8d809a34 , < 9cea16fea47e5553f51d10957677ff735b1eff03 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.252 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.202 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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