# 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-2026-89887"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:51.195Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:20.308Z"
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-2026-89887"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89887.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89887"
title: "media: i2c: ov7740: fix use-after-destroy in remove"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: i2c: ov7740: fix use-after-destroy in remove\n\nThe ov7740_remove() function had a severe teardown order bug where it\ndestroyed the driver's mutex before freeing the V4L2 control handler\nwhich relies on that mutex, leading to a use-after-destroy kernel panic.\nFurthermore, the driver explicitly called v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() and\nmutex_destroy() sequentially, but then called ov7740_free_controls()\nwhich invokes both of them a second time, resulting in a double-free.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by unregistering the subdevice first, and\nrelying exclusively on ov7740_free_controls() to safely tear down the\nmutex and control handler in the correct order."
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