# 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-2026-68209"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:28.245Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:31.902Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68209"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68209.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68209"
title: "media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure\n\nThe vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before\ncalling start_streaming().  If start_streaming() returns an error\nwithout first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(),\nvb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued\nbuffers leak.\n\nsun4i_csi_start_streaming() returned -EINVAL when no matching CSI\nformat could be found, before any setup (scratch buffer allocation,\npipeline start) had been performed.  The remaining error paths already\nconverge on the err_clear_dma_queue label, which calls\nreturn_all_buffers(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) under csi-\u003eqlock.  Jump\nto that label directly: the intermediate err_disable_device /\nerr_disable_pipeline / err_free_scratch_buffer labels are skipped,\nwhich is correct because nothing they would undo has happened yet.\n\nThis mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb (\"media: uvcvideo:\nReturn queued buffers on start_streaming() failure\")."
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