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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89901" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:00.997Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:34.110Z" 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-2026-89901" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89901.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89901" title: "media: airspy: use vb2_video_unregister_device() on disconnect to fix NULL deref" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: airspy: use vb2_video_unregister_device() on disconnect to fix NULL deref\n\nairspy_disconnect() clears s-\u003eudev under v4l2_lock, but\nairspy_stop_streaming() unconditionally calls airspy_ctrl_msg() and\nairspy_free_stream_bufs() afterwards. If a streaming user closes the\ndevice after disconnect, stop_streaming() runs and dereferences the\nNULL s-\u003eudev:\n\n airspy_stop_streaming()\n airspy_ctrl_msg(s, CMD_RECEIVER_MODE, 0, 0, NULL, 0)\n usb_sndctrlpipe(s-\u003eudev, 0) /* NULL deref */\n airspy_free_stream_bufs(s)\n usb_free_coherent(s-\u003eudev, ...) /* NULL deref */\n\nThe airspy driver uses vb2_fop_release() in its file_operations, so\nreplace video_unregister_device(&s-\u003evdev) with\nvb2_video_unregister_device(&s-\u003evdev) and move it before clearing\ns-\u003eudev. vb2_video_unregister_device() releases the vb2 queue, which\nsynchronously runs airspy_stop_streaming() if streaming is active, so\nthe URBs, coherent DMA stream buffers and the hardware stop control\nmessage all execute while s-\u003eudev is still 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(&s-\u003evb_queue_lock) / mutex_lock(&s-\u003ev4l2_lock) pair around\nthe unregister sequence would self-deadlock and has been removed. A\nshort v4l2_lock critical section around s-\u003eudev = NULL remains so any\nioctl 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":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9081e2655188d2d134a741aec837dc70439d505"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75089cea32e5055773bd13116236d08fdc98678a"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"155d0378ae0d6305cc4840583a6b42d2d0595bff"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e4ea90fdc6608cd5fac342e146ab6ae15d430bc"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9a8c37ddda9fa3687b142be9098e1c37b8faf35"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"297fee023f46d771a844520675692ea089d80d9d"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6749ac8f59cc80eb1b2d52f167fdf13e12655cc"},{"version":"634fe5033951b80ef4b98d8f047cb1083d29170d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f378dc45e685fc825d2dd08e7864666d6fcc009"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"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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