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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68222" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:42.687Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:51.745Z" 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-2026-68222" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68222.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68222" title: "media: msi2500: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: msi2500: 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\nmsi2500_start_streaming() had five error paths that all hit this trap\nand were further tangled by ret-overwriting between calls:\n\n - -ENODEV when the USB device was already disconnected\n - -ERESTARTSYS when mutex_lock_interruptible() was interrupted\n - msi2500_set_usb_adc() failure: ret was silently overwritten by\n the next call (msi2500_isoc_init), so the error was lost entirely\n - msi2500_isoc_init() failure: cleanup_queued_bufs was called, but\n the function then fell through to msi2500_ctrl_msg() and again\n masked the original error by overwriting ret\n - msi2500_ctrl_msg(CMD_START_STREAMING) failure: no cleanup at all,\n leaving isoc URBs submitted with no way for the driver to consume\n them\n\nConsolidate the error paths into a small goto chain. Every failure\nnow stops the function, drains the queued-buffer list, and returns\nthe real error code. The ctrl_msg failure path also rolls back the\npreceding msi2500_isoc_init() via msi2500_isoc_cleanup() before\nunlocking and draining.\n\nThe cleanup helper takes a vb2_buffer_state argument so that the\nstart_streaming error paths can pass VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED (as\nexpected by userspace on start_streaming failure) while stop_streaming\nkeeps its existing VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR semantics.\n\nThis mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb (\"media: uvcvideo:\nReturn queued buffers on start_streaming() failure\")." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c74b680704baecea4620c0774de473069e0bc4e8"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d10eedb786a13f91d76e11320fabb0bf712519f"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2de14ddb4fea04ca616403a6ba81c5e8099e9b9e"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d58229b330b7f67fbfa07e0f2a8a51fbeafaa9a"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bab9d5a67d4db96ae8c187b92b37979911302a10"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"264b5380c4f8aa92dbc2983ecd2b627f1d5e0061"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3673cb0a5711e910074d69201da9e1535c03f97a"},{"version":"977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7201c17786a498497bca57752883b90914d405ac"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"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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