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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89874"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:42.054Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:07.245Z"
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-2026-89874"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89874.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89874"
title: "media: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error\n\nv4l2_async_match_notify() creates ancillary media links before adding\nasc-\u003easc_subdev_entry to sd-\u003easc_list.\n\nIf ancillary link creation fails, the function jumps to\nerr_call_unbind while asc_subdev_entry has not been linked yet. Async\nconnections are zero-allocated, so the list entry still has NULL next\nand prev pointers on this path. Calling list_del() on it can therefore\ndereference NULL instead of returning the original link creation error.\n\nDo not delete asc_subdev_entry from err_call_unbind. There is no list\ninsertion to undo on this path; the bound callback and sub-device\nregistration are the operations that need to be rolled back."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d273571e531405426983c6a45ec635c7d0415eed"},{"version":"28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"caac13f518d83974e9884d1eeda3d4cc3bb92978"},{"version":"28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3345746e0957bce6c53644838e4955710a82a962"},{"version":"28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a57d94026cb4fd7b3d258f0db2ad391cbccfaba5"},{"version":"28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47d82b605351c0e04f6365e42c8ffe2fcfdba615"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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