# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31473"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:54:00.970Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:50.197Z"
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-2026-31473"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31473.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31473"
title: "media: mc, v4l2: serialize REINIT and REQBUFS with req_queue_mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: mc, v4l2: serialize REINIT and REQBUFS with req_queue_mutex\n\nMEDIA_REQUEST_IOC_REINIT can run concurrently with VIDIOC_REQBUFS(0)\nqueue teardown paths. This can race request object cleanup against vb2\nqueue cancellation and lead to use-after-free reports.\n\nWe already serialize request queueing against STREAMON/OFF with\nreq_queue_mutex. Extend that serialization to REQBUFS, and also take\nthe same mutex in media_request_ioctl_reinit() so REINIT is in the\nsame exclusion domain.\n\nThis keeps request cleanup and queue cancellation from running in\nparallel for request-capable devices."
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