# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23253"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-18T17:01:44.126Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:40.421Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23253"
title: "media: dvb-core: fix wrong reinitialization of ringbuffer on reopen"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: dvb-core: fix wrong reinitialization of ringbuffer on reopen\n\ndvb_dvr_open() calls dvb_ringbuffer_init() when a new reader opens the\nDVR device.  dvb_ringbuffer_init() calls init_waitqueue_head(), which\nreinitializes the waitqueue list head to empty.\n\nSince dmxdev-\u003edvr_buffer.queue is a shared waitqueue (all opens of the\nsame DVR device share it), this orphans any existing waitqueue entries\nfrom io_uring poll or epoll, leaving them with stale prev/next pointers\nwhile the list head is reset to {self, self}.\n\nThe waitqueue and spinlock in dvr_buffer are already properly\ninitialized once in dvb_dmxdev_init().  The open path only needs to\nreset the buffer data pointer, size, and read/write positions.\n\nReplace the dvb_ringbuffer_init() call in dvb_dvr_open() with direct\nassignment of data/size and a call to dvb_ringbuffer_reset(), which\nproperly resets pread, pwrite, and error with correct memory ordering\nwithout touching the waitqueue or spinlock."
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