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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

media: mc: Fix graph walk in media_pipeline_start

CVE-2024-39481

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: mc: Fix graph walk in media_pipeline_start

The graph walk tries to follow all links, even if they are not between pads. This causes a crash with, e.g. a MEDIA_LNK_FL_ANCILLARY_LINK link.

Fix this by allowing the walk to proceed only for MEDIA_LNK_FL_DATA_LINK links.

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