VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2026

CVE-2026-89887

CVE-2026-89887

Description

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

media: i2c: ov7740: fix use-after-destroy in remove

The ov7740_remove() function had a severe teardown order bug where it destroyed the driver's mutex before freeing the V4L2 control handler which relies on that mutex, leading to a use-after-destroy kernel panic. Furthermore, the driver explicitly called v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() and mutex_destroy() sequentially, but then called ov7740_free_controls() which invokes both of them a second time, resulting in a double-free.

This patch fixes the issue by unregistering the subdevice first, and relying exclusively on ov7740_free_controls() to safely tear down the mutex and control handler in the correct order.

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