# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43189"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:59.108Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:19:34.106Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43189"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43189.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43189"
title: "media: v4l2-async: Fix error handling on steps after finding a match"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: v4l2-async: Fix error handling on steps after finding a match\n\nOnce an async connection is found to be matching with an fwnode, a\nsub-device may be registered (in case it wasn't already), its bound\noperation is called, ancillary links are created, the async connection\nis added to the sub-device's list of connections and removed from the\nglobal waiting connection list. Further on, the sub-device's possible own\nnotifier is searched for possible additional matches.\n\nFix these specific issues:\n\n- If v4l2_async_match_notify() failed before the sub-notifier handling,\n  the async connection was unbound and its entry removed from the\n  sub-device's async connection list. The latter part was also done in\n  v4l2_async_match_notify().\n\n- The async connection's sd field was only set after creating ancillary\n  links in v4l2_async_match_notify(). It was however dereferenced in\n  v4l2_async_unbind_subdev_one(), which was called on error path of\n  v4l2_async_match_notify() failure."
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