# 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-2026-31583"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:12.923Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:17:07.863Z"
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-2026-31583"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31583.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31583"
title: "media: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_v4l2_open()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_v4l2_open()\n\nem28xx_v4l2_open() reads dev-\u003ev4l2 without holding dev-\u003elock,\ncreating a race with em28xx_v4l2_init()'s error path and\nem28xx_v4l2_fini(), both of which free the em28xx_v4l2 struct\nand set dev-\u003ev4l2 to NULL under dev-\u003elock.\n\nThis race leads to two issues:\n - use-after-free in v4l2_fh_init() when accessing vdev-\u003ectrl_handler,\n   since the video_device is embedded in the freed em28xx_v4l2 struct.\n - NULL pointer dereference in em28xx_resolution_set() when accessing\n   v4l2-\u003enorm, since dev-\u003ev4l2 has been set to NULL.\n\nFix this by moving the mutex_lock() before the dev-\u003ev4l2 read and\nadding a NULL check for dev-\u003ev4l2 under the lock."
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