CVE-2026-97513: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Release m2m_ctx after Instance Removed from List Possible use after free if IRQ thread manages to obtain spinlock between m2m_ctx release and wave5_release function removing stream instance from list of active instances. The IRQ thread looks for the m2m_ctx which is freed so null pointer dereference occurs.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 6.8, before 6.18.53 (fixed in 6.18.53); from 6.19, before 7.2 (fixed in 7.2)

Published 2026-09-24. Last modified 2026-09-28.