CVE-2026-43263CWE-476

CVE-2026-43263

High · published May 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster

When multi instances are created/destroyed, many interrupts happens

and structures for decoder are removed.

"struct vpu_instance" this structure is shared for all flow in the decoder,

so if the structure is not protected by lock, Null dereference

could happens sometimes.

IRQ Handler was spilt to two phases and Lock was added as well.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00175 · 6.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-05-06T16:16Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.8, < 6.18.166.18.16
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.66.19.6
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAY 11:28Z
    media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster
    cvelistv5