CVE-2026-45928: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure In wave5_vpu_open_enc() and wave5_vpu_open_dec(), a vpu instance is allocated via kzalloc(). If the subsequent allocation for inst->codec_info fails, the functions return -ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated instance, causing a memory leak. Fix this by calling kfree() on the instance in this error path to ensure it is properly released.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.8, before 6.12.75 (fixed in 6.12.75); from 6.13, before 6.18.14 (fixed in 6.18.14); from 6.19, before 6.19.4 (fixed in 6.19.4)

Published 2026-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-25.