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GHSA-W98H-753W-VJMP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-19 12:30 – Updated: 2026-07-19 12:30

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-w98h-753w-vjmp",
  "modified": "2026-07-19T12:30:22Z",
  "published": "2026-07-19T12:30:22Z",
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CVE-2026-53379 (GCVE-0-2026-53379)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 10:02 – Updated: 2026-07-19 10:02

Title

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

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c13721040a566d832…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1b3811c6b0f67fb7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd10fb4c33bdc9c25…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba9e9274c4ecfc039…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/791598484fd558bb4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f727e3251ceee91f3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f75e160745663ce9b…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.90 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.32 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.9 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-W98H-753W-VJMP

CVE-2026-53379 (GCVE-0-2026-53379)

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