# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89870"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:39.271Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:03.391Z"
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-2026-89870"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89870.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89870"
title: "media: zoran: Avoid freeing a registered video_device twice"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: zoran: Avoid freeing a registered video_device twice\n\nzoran_init_video_device() installs zoran_vdev_release() as the\nvideo_device release callback through zoran_template. After\nvideo_register_device() succeeds, video_unregister_device() drops the\nregistered video_device reference and the V4L2 core eventually invokes\nthat release callback, which kfree()s the video_device.\n\nzoran_exit_video_devices() called video_unregister_device() and then\nkfree(zr-\u003evideo_dev), so device teardown could free the same\nvideo_device twice.\n\nRemove the direct kfree() and clear the cached pointer after\nunregistering. The pre-registration failure path keeps its manual free\nbecause the video_device was not registered there.\n\nThis issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by\nmanual source review."
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