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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89881" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:46.966Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:14.095Z" 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-2026-89881" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89881.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89881" title: "media: rtl2832_sdr: use vb2_video_unregister_device() on remove to fix DMA leak" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: rtl2832_sdr: use vb2_video_unregister_device() on remove to fix DMA leak\n\nrtl2832_sdr_remove() runs on USB disconnect and clears dev-\u003eudev to\nNULL before any pending streaming teardown has run. When user space\nlater closes its file descriptor, vb2 calls rtl2832_sdr_stop_streaming()\nwhich in turn calls rtl2832_sdr_free_stream_bufs(). That helper releases\neach coherent buffer with:\n\n usb_free_coherent(dev-\u003eudev, dev-\u003ebuf_size,\n dev-\u003ebuf_list[dev-\u003ebuf_num],\n dev-\u003edma_addr[dev-\u003ebuf_num]);\n\nusb_free_coherent() returns immediately when its dev argument is NULL,\nso every DMA stream buffer that was live at disconnect is silently\nleaked. The URBs allocated in rtl2832_sdr_alloc_urbs() outlive the\ndevice for the same reason.\n\nThe rtl2832_sdr driver uses vb2_fop_release() in its file_operations,\nso replace video_unregister_device(&dev-\u003evdev) with\nvb2_video_unregister_device(&dev-\u003evdev) and move it before clearing\ndev-\u003eudev. vb2_video_unregister_device() releases the vb2 queue, which\nsynchronously runs rtl2832_sdr_stop_streaming() if streaming is active,\nso URBs and coherent DMA stream buffers are freed while dev-\u003eudev is\nstill valid.\n\nvb2_video_unregister_device() locks vdev-\u003equeue-\u003elock (vb_queue_lock)\ninternally, and stop_streaming() locks v4l2_lock, so the previous outer\nmutex_lock(&dev-\u003evb_queue_lock) / mutex_lock(&dev-\u003ev4l2_lock) pair\naround the unregister sequence would self-deadlock and has been removed.\nA short v4l2_lock critical section around dev-\u003eudev = NULL remains so\nany ioctl path that still holds the file descriptor sees coherent state.\n\nIssue identified by automated review of the INV-003 series at\nhttps://sashiko.dev/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"234c46b95a032232e31fa5987b84fb8f87a9693b"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"034b6a4f9589c04bc3f2bd5125658cd72d3e17c8"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ef9f19010ae4ba93aca211ea8f0081b9bf7aab2"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"053581d4657c6b5289c5de71a4828d313c005189"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbf15e83c37d9ac938b7c35c02b748fe54230010"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7443b16b6dd8889a3b9c5236a09e7c58f0d11dae"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0d9d9a3b41a1346c26af57aade6ba3f552fa171"},{"version":"771138920eafa399f68d3492c8a75dfeea23474b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dabb047c62668f280998e29117c55e41aabac336"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"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":"6.12.110","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"}] ## 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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