CVE-2026-68222

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Aug 19, 2026

Description

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

media: msi2500: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(), vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued buffers leak.

msi2500_start_streaming() had five error paths that all hit this trap and were further tangled by ret-overwriting between calls:

- -ENODEV when the USB device was already disconnected - -ERESTARTSYS when mutex_lock_interruptible() was interrupted - msi2500_set_usb_adc() failure: ret was silently overwritten by the next call (msi2500_isoc_init), so the error was lost entirely - msi2500_isoc_init() failure: cleanup_queued_bufs was called, but the function then fell through to msi2500_ctrl_msg() and again masked the original error by overwriting ret - msi2500_ctrl_msg(CMD_START_STREAMING) failure: no cleanup at all, leaving isoc URBs submitted with no way for the driver to consume them

Consolidate the error paths into a small goto chain. Every failure now stops the function, drains the queued-buffer list, and returns the real error code. The ctrl_msg failure path also rolls back the preceding msi2500_isoc_init() via msi2500_isoc_cleanup() before unlocking and draining.

The cleanup helper takes a vb2_buffer_state argument so that the start_streaming error paths can pass VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED (as expected by userspace on start_streaming failure) while stop_streaming keeps its existing VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR semantics.

This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Source: the vendor's advisory (CNA). NVD analysis pending.

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < c74b680704baecea4620c0774de473069e0bc4e8; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < 2d10eedb786a13f91d76e11320fabb0bf712519f; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < 2de14ddb4fea04ca616403a6ba81c5e8099e9b9e; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < 1d58229b330b7f67fbfa07e0f2a8a51fbeafaa9a; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < bab9d5a67d4db96ae8c187b92b37979911302a10; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < 264b5380c4f8aa92dbc2983ecd2b627f1d5e0061; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < 3673cb0a5711e910074d69201da9e1535c03f97a; >= 977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291, < 7201c17786a498497bca57752883b90914d405ac
LinuxLinux3.12

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 10, 2026
Last modified
Aug 19, 2026
NVD status
Received

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CVE-2026-68222: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix