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CVE-2026-97513: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Release m2m_ctx after Instance Removed from

CVE-2026-97513 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.8 · Published 2026-09-24

Executive brief

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.