CVE-2026-43247
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: chips-media: wave5: Fix SError of kernel panic when closed
SError of kernel panic rarely happened while testing fluster. The root cause was to enter suspend mode because timeout of autosuspend delay happened.
[ 48.834439] SError Interrupt on CPU0, code 0x00000000bf000000 -- SError [ 48.834455] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1067 Comm: v4l2h265dec0:sr Not tainted 6.12.9-gc9e21a1ebd75-dirty #7 [ 48.834461] Hardware name: ti Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM/Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM, BIOS 2025.01-00345-gbaf3aaa8ecfa 01/01/2025 [ 48.834464] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 48.834468] pc : wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834488] lr : wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834495] sp : ffff8000856e3a30 [ 48.834497] x29: ffff8000856e3a30 x28: ffff0008093f6010 x27: ffff000809158130 [ 48.834504] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff00080b625000 x24: ffff000804a9ba80 [ 48.834509] x23: ffff000802343028 x22: ffff000809158150 x21: ffff000802218000 [ 48.834513] x20: ffff0008093f6000 x19: ffff0008093f6000 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 48.834518] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000ffff74009618 [ 48.834523] x14: 000000010000000c x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 48.834527] x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: ffffffffffffffff x9 : ffff000802343028 [ 48.834532] x8 : ffff00080b6252a0 x7 : 0000000000000038 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 48.834536] x5 : ffff00080b625060 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 48.834541] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff800084bf0118 x0 : ffff800084bf0000 [ 48.834547] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt [ 48.834549] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1067 Comm: v4l2h265dec0:sr Not tainted 6.12.9-gc9e21a1ebd75-dirty #7 [ 48.834554] Hardware name: ti Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM/Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM, BIOS 2025.01-00345-gbaf3aaa8ecfa 01/01/2025 [ 48.834556] Call trace: [ 48.834559] dump_backtrace+0x94/0xec [ 48.834574] show_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 48.834579] dump_stack_lvl+0x38/0x90 [ 48.834585] dump_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 48.834588] panic+0x35c/0x3e0 [ 48.834592] nmi_panic+0x40/0x8c [ 48.834595] arm64_serror_panic+0x64/0x70 [ 48.834598] do_serror+0x3c/0x78 [ 48.834601] el1h_64_error_handler+0x34/0x4c [ 48.834605] el1h_64_error+0x64/0x68 [ 48.834608] wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834615] wave5_vpu_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x54/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834622] wave5_vpu_dec_buf_queue+0x19c/0x1a0 [wave5] [ 48.834628] __enqueue_in_driver+0x3c/0x74 [videobuf2_common] [ 48.834639] vb2_core_qbuf+0x508/0x61c [videobuf2_common] [ 48.834646] vb2_qbuf+0xa4/0x168 [videobuf2_v4l2] [ 48.834656] v4l2_m2m_qbuf+0x80/0x238 [v4l2_mem2mem] [ 48.834666] v4l2_m2m_ioctl_qbuf+0x18/0x24 [v4l2_mem2mem] [ 48.834673] v4l_qbuf+0x48/0x5c [videodev] [ 48.834704] __video_do_ioctl+0x180/0x3f0 [videodev] [ 48.834725] video_usercopy+0x2ec/0x68c [videodev] [ 48.834745] video_ioctl2+0x18/0x24 [videodev] [ 48.834766] v4l2_ioctl+0x40/0x60 [videodev] [ 48.834786] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec [ 48.834793] invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100 [ 48.834800] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0 [ 48.834804] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 [ 48.834809] el0_svc+0x30/0xd0 [ 48.834813] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4 [ 48.834816] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 48.834820] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 48.834831] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 48.834833] CPU features: 0x08,00002002,80200000,4200421b [ 48.834837] Memory Limit: none [ 49.161404] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt ]---
AI Insight
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A use-after-free or race condition in the Linux kernel's wave5 media driver can trigger a kernel panic when the device is closed during autosuspend.
Vulnerability
CVE-2026-43247 is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's chips-media wave5 driver, which is used for hardware video decoding. The issue manifests as a rare kernel panic (SError) triggered when the video decoder device is closed while the driver enters a suspend state due to an autosuspend timeout [1]. The panic occurs in the wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag function and is caused by accessing hardware registers after the device has been partially or fully suspended, leading to an asynchronous SError interrupt [2].
Exploitation
The vulnerability is triggered during normal usage when a user-space application closes the video decoder device (e.g., /dev/videoX) while the autosuspend timer expires. No special privileges are required beyond access to the video decoder device, which is typically available to the user running the video application. The attack surface is local, requiring the attacker to be able to run code on the system that uses the wave5 driver, such as in a video playback or encoding workload [1][2].
Impact
Successful exploitation results in a kernel panic, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected system. The panic message shows a synchronous SError interrupt on CPU0, leading to system crash and reboot. The CVSS v3 score is 5.5 (Medium) with a vector reflecting local access, low complexity, and high availability impact [1][2].
Mitigation
This vulnerability is fixed in the Linux kernel by commits that ensure proper synchronization when the device is closed, preventing race conditions between autosuspend and device cleanup. The fix has been applied to the stable kernel tree as of version 6.12.9 and later [3]. Users should update their kernel to include the patch that addresses this issue.
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