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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31584" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:13.586Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:23:36.030Z" 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-2026-31584" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31584.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31584" title: "media: mediatek: vcodec: fix use-after-free in encoder release path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: mediatek: vcodec: fix use-after-free in encoder release path\n\nThe fops_vcodec_release() function frees the context structure (ctx)\nwithout first cancelling any pending or running work in ctx-\u003eencode_work.\nThis creates a race window where the workqueue handler (mtk_venc_worker)\nmay still be accessing the context memory after it has been freed.\n\nRace condition:\n\n CPU 0 (release path) CPU 1 (workqueue)\n --------------------- ------------------\n fops_vcodec_release()\n v4l2_m2m_ctx_release()\n v4l2_m2m_cancel_job()\n // waits for m2m job \"done\"\n mtk_venc_worker()\n v4l2_m2m_job_finish()\n // m2m job \"done\"\n // BUT worker still running!\n // post-job_finish access:\n other ctx dereferences\n // UAF if ctx already freed\n // returns (job \"done\")\n kfree(ctx) // ctx freed\n\nRoot cause: The v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() only waits for the m2m job\nlifecycle (via TRANS_RUNNING flag), not the workqueue lifecycle.\nAfter v4l2_m2m_job_finish() is called, the m2m framework considers\nthe job complete and v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() returns, but the worker\nfunction continues executing and may still access ctx.\n\nThe work is queued during encode operations via:\n queue_work(ctx-\u003edev-\u003eencode_workqueue, &ctx-\u003eencode_work)\nThe worker function accesses ctx-\u003em2m_ctx, ctx-\u003edev, and other ctx\nfields even after calling v4l2_m2m_job_finish().\n\nThis vulnerability was confirmed with KASAN by running an instrumented\ntest module that widens the post-job_finish race window. KASAN detected:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mtk_venc_worker+0x159/0x180\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800326e000 by task kworker/u8:0/12\n\n Workqueue: mtk_vcodec_enc_wq mtk_venc_worker\n\n Allocated by task 47:\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90\n fops_vcodec_open+0x85/0x1a0\n\n Freed by task 47:\n __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70\n kfree+0xee/0x3a0\n fops_vcodec_release+0xb7/0x190\n\nFix this by calling cancel_work_sync(&ctx-\u003eencode_work) before kfree(ctx).\nThis ensures the workqueue handler is both cancelled (if pending) and\nsynchronized (waits for any running handler to complete) before the\ncontext is freed.\n\nPlacement rationale: The fix is placed after v4l2_ctrl_handler_free()\nand before list_del_init(&ctx-\u003elist). At this point, all m2m operations\nare done (v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() has returned), and we need to ensure\nthe workqueue is synchronized before removing ctx from the list and\nfreeing it.\n\nNote: The open error path does NOT need cancel_work_sync() because\nINIT_WORK() only initializes the work structure - it does not schedule\nit. Work is only scheduled later during device_run() operations." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0934d37596151edce115c6d0843a9ad7d5e5d232","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a9bdaf9dc42ccca50e53f82165292f74a365c11"},{"version":"0934d37596151edce115c6d0843a9ad7d5e5d232","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8a55913552aed45108525d1851c65e1db0cc25b"},{"version":"0934d37596151edce115c6d0843a9ad7d5e5d232","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f99353cd0e9f58bf17889049137b8d65fb44ebf1"},{"version":"0934d37596151edce115c6d0843a9ad7d5e5d232","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93d9a58961a9e09306857e999b3ee76aa4be67f0"},{"version":"0934d37596151edce115c6d0843a9ad7d5e5d232","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1692337c6fa26e04f89b22a4d84bf5b7ada50d1"},{"version":"0934d37596151edce115c6d0843a9ad7d5e5d232","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76e35091ffc722ba39b303e48bc5d08abb59dd56"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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