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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68223" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:44.123Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:54.081Z" 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-2026-68223" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68223.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68223" title: "media: meson: vdec: Fix memory leak in error path of vdec_open" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: meson: vdec: Fix memory leak in error path of vdec_open\n\nThe vdec_open() function previously jumped directly to\nerr_m2m_release when vdec_init_ctrls() failed, skipping\nrelease of the m2m context. This caused a resource leak.\n\nFix it by introducing a proper err_m2m_ctx_release label\nthat calls v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(sess-\u003em2m_ctx) before\nreleasing the m2m device.\n\nThis was identified via kmemleak:\nunreferenced object 0xffff0000205d6878 (size 8):\n comm \"v4l_id\", pid 5289, jiffies 4294938580\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 40 d2 49 18 00 00 ff ff @.I.....\n backtrace (crc d3204599):\n kmemleak_alloc+0xc8/0xf0\n __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x60c/0x850\n v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x1b4/0x2e8 [videodev]\n vdec_open+0x1f4/0x788 [meson_vdec]\n v4l2_open+0x144/0x460 [videodev]\n chrdev_open+0x1ac/0x500\n do_dentry_open+0x3f0/0xfe8\n vfs_open+0x68/0x320\n do_open+0x2d8/0x9a8\n path_openat+0x1d0/0x4f0\n do_filp_open+0x190/0x380\n do_sys_openat2+0xf8/0x1b0\n __arm64_sys_openat+0x13c/0x1e8\n invoke_syscall+0xdc/0x268\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x178/0x258\n do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x70" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f97120d1a50c9efffe54425fac42bb7ef13ac86"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb77d6f4580f316c9148b942af0028ee489d121e"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9058a19731036c03a779bfe8c3ca0d9aa198599"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6cd08a71a630f19b10c318e76e3c56e1dd10e00"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cf0171ad594860e31723c671e37824ce12c01ea"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1391b75bf0119b5d37f1c1c3078d452a01967f9b"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99f3527bd1a27ff798d59177ed045b0dd87deaef"},{"version":"3e7f51bd96077acad6acd7b45668f65b44233c4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"940f161f734b25f175a95d2684c2021f6323693a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"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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