# 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-2026-68231"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:54.801Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:32:04.017Z"
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-2026-68231"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68231.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68231"
title: "media: airspy: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: airspy: 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\nairspy_start_streaming() returned -ENODEV early when the USB device had\nbeen disconnected (s-\u003eudev == NULL) without returning any buffers that\nbuf_queue() had already accepted.  Take v4l2_lock first and jump to the\nexisting err_clear_bit label, which already drains s-\u003equeued_bufs via\nvb2_buffer_done(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) before unlocking.\n\nThis mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb (\"media: uvcvideo:\nReturn queued buffers on start_streaming() failure\")."
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