Linux Kernel up to 6.12.74/6.18.15/6.19.5 media wave5_vpu_timer_callback denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.74/6.18.15/6.19.5. Impacted is the function wave5_vpu_timer_callback of the component media. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-43229. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.74/6.18.15/6.19.5. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function wave5_vpu_timer_callback of the component media. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix device cleanup order to prevent kernel panic Move video device unregistration to the beginning of the remove function to ensure all video operations are stopped before cleaning up the worker thread and disabling PM runtime. This prevents hardware register access after the device has been powered down. In polling mode, the hrtimer periodically triggers wave5_vpu_timer_callback() which queues work to the kthread worker. The worker executes wave5_vpu_irq_work_fn() which reads hardware registers via wave5_vdi_read_register(). The original cleanup order disabled PM runtime and powered down hardware before unregistering video devices. When autosuspend triggers and powers off the hardware, the video devices are still registered and the worker thread can still be triggered by the hrtimer, causing it to attempt reading registers from powered-off hardware. This results in a bus error (synchronous external abort) and kernel panic. This causes random kernel panics during encoding operations: Internal error: synchronous external abort: 0000000096000010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: wave5 rpmsg_ctrl rpmsg_char ... CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1520 Comm: vpu_irq_thread Tainted: G M W pc : wave5_vdi_read_register+0x10/0x38 [wave5] lr : wave5_vpu_irq_work_fn+0x28/0x60 [wave5] Call trace: wave5_vdi_read_register+0x10/0x38 [wave5] kthread_worker_fn+0xd8/0x238 kthread+0x104/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Code: aa1e03e9 d503201f f9416800 8b214000 (b9400000) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: synchronous external abort: Fatal exception

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-43229 since 05/01/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 313157 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-43229), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.12.75, 6.18.16 or 6.19.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch b73d85231d5b1400a4fa5046cdac6c4d7cc6d969/526816f2e331954d80fed8b37fa94efbbdde2b8d/dc2b7deae740a3ed138fb7ae17c97fa4055cfc5f/b74cedac643b02aefa7da881b58a3792859d9748 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (313157). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.12.0
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• 6.12.74
• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
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• 6.18.15
• 6.19.0
• 6.19.1
• 6.19.2
• 6.19.3
• 6.19.4
• 6.19.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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