CVE-2026-46222: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: rockchip: rkcif: Add missing MUST_CONNECT flag to pads The pads missed checks for connected devices which may a null dereference when the stream is enabled. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020 pc : rkcif_interface_enable_streams+0x48/0xf0 lr : rkcif_interface_enable_streams+0x44/0xf0 Call trace: rkcif_interface_enable_streams+0x48/0xf0 v4l2_subdev_enable_streams+0x26c/0x3f0 rkcif_stream_start_streaming+0x140/0x278 vb2_start_streaming+0x74/0x188 vb2_core_streamon+0xe0/0x1d8 vb2_ioctl_streamon+0x60/0xa8 v4l_streamon+0x2c/0x40 __video_do_ioctl+0x34c/0x400 video_usercopy+0x2d0/0x800 video_ioctl2+0x20/0x60 v4l2_ioctl+0x48/0x78

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.19, before 7.0.9 (fixed in 7.0.9)

Published 2026-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.