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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89900" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:00.289Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:33.144Z" 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-2026-89900" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89900.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89900" title: "media: cec: core: Fix kmemleak due to missed rc_free_device() call" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: cec: core: Fix kmemleak due to missed rc_free_device() call\n\nThe commit dccc0c3ddf8f (\"media: rc: fix race between unregister and\nurb/irq callbacks\") removed the implicit call to rc_free_device() from\nrc_unregister_device(). However, the commit missed to remove the NULL\nassignment of adap-\u003erc that is now causing rc_free_device() to never be\ncalled on an allocated rc device.\n\nkmemleak reports following after e.g. dw-hdmi unbind:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff00010ac10000 (size 4096):\n comm \"kworker/u16:1\", pid 39, jiffies 4294897739\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 20 23 4b 0a 01 00 ff ff 08 00 c1 0a 01 00 ff ff #K.............\n 08 00 c1 0a 01 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace (crc e11baccc):\n kmemleak_alloc+0x38/0x44\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x4a8/0x5e0\n rc_allocate_device+0x48/0x2a0\n cec_allocate_adapter+0x3ac/0x800\n dw_hdmi_cec_probe+0x264/0x634\n platform_probe+0xc0/0x188\n really_probe+0x4a4/0x8e0\n __driver_probe_device+0x2f8/0x440\n driver_probe_device+0x60/0x160\n __device_attach_driver+0x1a0/0x2a0\n bus_for_each_drv+0x100/0x1a0\n __device_attach+0x174/0x350\n device_initial_probe+0x90/0xb0\n bus_probe_device+0x4c/0x120\n device_add+0xdec/0x116c\n platform_device_add+0x354/0x598\n\nRemove the assignment of adap-\u003erc to NULL to let cec_delete_adapter()\nfree the allocated rc device after last user of the cec device exits to\nfix the kmemleak." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a7becb58f6b8a3a3efe5d3acfd52e2c107de6772","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"954ee95a03b4d31d4505591bfaba02c24b75776b"},{"version":"75977f5f5c4974c72bbedefbf09ad33ebbaa36f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f28a8e1ba4d67a18e4662e5acefd5a4389322366"},{"version":"e250b672d40a9e0d97a8895cbb301248bea0fce6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"695063fc57574dd117b1bc750ca189cf03a2caad"},{"version":"dccc0c3ddf8f16071736f98a7d6dd46a2d43e037","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cca2407794795cecff7f8e5f5a79f4ef6b1d6f6c"},{"version":"dccc0c3ddf8f16071736f98a7d6dd46a2d43e037","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a24ba0653f7154e671dc8d2bf64682ab2d042792"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.157"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.110"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.51"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"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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