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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53382" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T11:59:31.045Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:50:32.686Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53382" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53382.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53382" title: "media: vidtv: fix NULL pointer dereference in vidtv_mux_push_si" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: vidtv: fix NULL pointer dereference in vidtv_mux_push_si\n\nsyzbot reported a general protection fault in\nvidtv_psi_ts_psi_write_into [1].\n\nvidtv_mux_get_pid_ctx() can return NULL, but vidtv_mux_push_si() does\nnot check for this before dereferencing the returned pointer to access\nthe continuity counter. This leads to a general protection fault when\naccessing a near-NULL address.\n\nThe root cause is that vidtv_mux_pid_ctx_init() does not check the\nreturn value of vidtv_mux_create_pid_ctx_once() for PMT section PIDs.\nIf the allocation fails, the PID context is never created, but init\nreturns success. The subsequent vidtv_mux_push_si() call then gets\nNULL from vidtv_mux_get_pid_ctx() and crashes.\n\nFix both the root cause (add error check in vidtv_mux_pid_ctx_init\nfor PMT PIDs) and add defensive NULL checks in vidtv_mux_push_si for\nall vidtv_mux_get_pid_ctx() calls.\n\n[1]\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nWorkqueue: events vidtv_mux_tick\nRIP: 0010:vidtv_psi_ts_psi_write_into+0x54a/0xbc0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:197\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n vidtv_psi_table_header_write_into drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:799 [inline]\n vidtv_psi_pmt_write_into+0x3b2/0xa70 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:1231\n vidtv_mux_push_si+0x932/0xe80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:196\n vidtv_mux_tick+0xe9b/0x1480 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:408" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"455bc12e7b73ab5a2dfcb47822e91e772bc6c42e"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0f5a1d7056980a0d512456fdb370cfb72bba86a"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6df7e16d4f742c80add58995a6e69385b97aa9e6"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd923dadefadb9671b5ac341b672ff424d429c39"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"353d9578951dd38bc9679308f5b618ceed1f20fa"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f965cf22dda7f512f4922415894c3e528269a4ae"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b28b12be6e8910489e6800ed93ea4d41dfe19683"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"232e4b313ea342672edf8947e067c0de4328405b"},{"version":"f90cf6079bf67988f8b1ad1ade70fc89d0080905","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d8bf3d8f91073f4db347ed3aa6302b56107499c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.10.260","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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