media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1de71556cbd6e1d0d26fb86b9b3bb8caa0df8495
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32e9e45cf7e3422d21fa64535588d3572faf71c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52defdd4034db1a34bb48006f889d66a3629224b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a519e21e32398459ba357e67b541402f7295ee1b
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45928.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45928