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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52491" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-29T15:52:09.891Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:10:13.876Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52491" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52491.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52491" title: "media: mtk-jpeg: Fix use after free bug due to error path handling in mtk_jpeg_dec_device_run" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: mtk-jpeg: Fix use after free bug due to error path handling in mtk_jpeg_dec_device_run\n\nIn mtk_jpeg_probe, &jpeg-\u003ejob_timeout_work is bound with\nmtk_jpeg_job_timeout_work.\n\nIn mtk_jpeg_dec_device_run, if error happens in\nmtk_jpeg_set_dec_dst, it will finally start the worker while\nmark the job as finished by invoking v4l2_m2m_job_finish.\n\nThere are two methods to trigger the bug. If we remove the\nmodule, it which will call mtk_jpeg_remove to make cleanup.\nThe possible sequence is as follows, which will cause a\nuse-after-free bug.\n\nCPU0 CPU1\nmtk_jpeg_dec_... |\n start worker\t |\n |mtk_jpeg_job_timeout_work\nmtk_jpeg_remove |\n v4l2_m2m_release |\n kfree(m2m_dev); |\n |\n | v4l2_m2m_get_curr_priv\n | m2m_dev-\u003ecurr_ctx //use\n\nIf we close the file descriptor, which will call mtk_jpeg_release,\nit will have a similar sequence.\n\nFix this bug by starting timeout worker only if started jpegdec worker\nsuccessfully. Then v4l2_m2m_job_finish will only be called in\neither mtk_jpeg_job_timeout_work or mtk_jpeg_dec_device_run." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b2f0d2724ba477d326e9d654d4db1c93e98f8b93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43872f44eee6c6781fea1348b38885d8e78face9"},{"version":"b2f0d2724ba477d326e9d654d4db1c93e98f8b93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b1036c60a37a30caf6759a90fe5ecd06ec35590"},{"version":"b2f0d2724ba477d326e9d654d4db1c93e98f8b93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fec4db7fff54d9b0306a332bab31eac47eeb5f6"},{"version":"b2f0d2724ba477d326e9d654d4db1c93e98f8b93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8254d54d00eb6cdb8367399c7f912eb8d354ecd7"},{"version":"b2f0d2724ba477d326e9d654d4db1c93e98f8b93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e2f37022f0fc0893da4d85a0500c9d547fffd4c"},{"version":"b2f0d2724ba477d326e9d654d4db1c93e98f8b93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"206c857dd17d4d026de85866f1b5f0969f2a109e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.10.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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