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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68217" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:36.773Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:48.858Z" 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-2026-68217" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68217.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68217" title: "media: pwc: Drain fill_buf on start_streaming() failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: pwc: Drain fill_buf on start_streaming() failure\n\npwc_isoc_init() submits its isochronous URBs with\nusb_submit_urb(.., GFP_KERNEL) in a loop. After the first URB is\nsubmitted, its completion handler pwc_isoc_handler() can run on another\nCPU before the loop finishes:\n\n start_streaming()\n pwc_isoc_init()\n usb_submit_urb(urbs[0], GFP_KERNEL)\n pwc_isoc_handler(urbs[0])\n pdev-\u003efill_buf =\n pwc_get_next_fill_buf(pdev)\n usb_submit_urb(urbs[i\u003e0], ..) -\u003e fails\n pwc_isoc_cleanup(pdev) /* kills URBs */\n return ret;\n pwc_cleanup_queued_bufs(pdev, VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED)\n\npwc_get_next_fill_buf() detaches a buffer from pdev-\u003equeued_bufs and\nstores it in pdev-\u003efill_buf. The error path in start_streaming() only\ndrains pdev-\u003equeued_bufs, so the buffer parked in pdev-\u003efill_buf is\nleaked. vb2_start_streaming() then triggers\nWARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count).\n\nstop_streaming() already handles this since commit 80b0963e1698\n(\"[media] pwc: fix WARN_ON\"), which added the fill_buf drain in the\nteardown path but not in the start_streaming() error path. Mirror that\nhandling on failure so start_streaming() returns with no buffer owned\nby the driver.\n\nIssue identified by automated review of the INV-003 series at\nhttps://sashiko.dev/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97f3c15957ec7e6d249f05407ad947c0644df24d"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4afffd148991a826e8995362fb10cf8705c1130"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eabe9a59640698137d7382d5b549e95dc37f7565"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a56e7641e09bd80b976e944ae759109b86fd5b38"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acc789b2173070638cad89c2b61d33ed338be0dd"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9afd605dcd96c7a45f338eded1de16679b30e1df"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d4812668b03f823b5044789d6aa77fe56b42587"},{"version":"885fe18f5542fe283a17f70583383c6cadcba1c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"906e410dcffbbd99fb4081abab817a830033aa28"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.1"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","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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