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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89741" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:47.877Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:55.196Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89741" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89741.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89741" title: "Revert \"media: v4l2-dev: fix error handling in __video_register_device()\"" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRevert \"media: v4l2-dev: fix error handling in __video_register_device()\"\n\nThis reverts commit 2a934fdb01db6458288fc9386d3d8ceba6dd551a.\n\nThe intentions of that patch were good, but it doesn't work.\n\nThe idea is that if device_register fails, you have to do a put_device\nto let the ref counter release resources.\n\nHowever, the V4L2 API says that if video_register_device() fails, then\nyou have to call video_device_release(), which kfree()s the video_device\nstruct.\n\nBut the put_device() will already have freed the struct, so you end\nup in a double-free scenario.\n\nThere is not really a good way of fixing this without breaking\nvideo_register_device() into two parts, one that initializes everything,\nand one that does the actual device_register, and then converting all\nV4L2 drivers to this new model.\n\nThat is a massive job, and it is very unlikely that device_register\nwill fail.\n\nSo rather than ending up in a double-free scenario, just revert this\npatch, and in that case we'll have a small memory leak. Which is a lot\nmore robust." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e5c8e62ae551e0ad2e15412aa0c57c2856d59677","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b998c171ed875e402e1fd1c5cd619e4ca05e9c1"},{"version":"8b451a9a46f2bfc510e6d5c2492df91647586184","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3de14b4f681a1b3c6d375d98d9d37a55ebb85349"},{"version":"b6be1f5633eae200af2527e9eeb7f51be5739b0f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8027f82c0f5474ed72448e160ee9778051fa1f49"},{"version":"ae7b143e05b36fc69d6571751855946cc45064c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ac009a65d2385e9f0799eaf9d9694a29153a161"},{"version":"2429bb9fad88c8fa84c4956b0a21cf5afe5e92b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"712ca1cf756de2557a116e0df55791bac0c9f99e"},{"version":"2a934fdb01db6458288fc9386d3d8ceba6dd551a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aad08b5f67d2a8116e1a00bce2611c1513b10bce"},{"version":"2a934fdb01db6458288fc9386d3d8ceba6dd551a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce792b94e03882108019ba996c1a7c4d4e09be2c"},{"version":"2a934fdb01db6458288fc9386d3d8ceba6dd551a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7600f5cee5de14065f950807931d6e6d40fb2d7"},{"version":"ee141706e701356dda41c6fed9ee18bf427c28e3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4451412739ed33a49b34624299394ee575116d0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.270"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.221"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.188"},{"version":"6.6.95","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.157"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.109"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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