CVE-2026-97576

Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/400cd78a63cc647412cf069c9851bdea2818340c 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba1023d3a6d5d244d59f20c4ba6af4879ae08a9f 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b1ef6dc57f4e57fe27cfdd3bf82033ed91ca34 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc694a9929f7cb9c88ef91e45eb982b7bbe5a477 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-97576.json.

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            "drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-core.c"
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC tile counts\n\nThe stateless HEVC decoders read num_tile_columns_minus1 + 1 entries from\ncolumn_width_minus1[] and num_tile_rows_minus1 + 1 from row_height_minus1[]\nand use them as tile-loop bounds, but std_validate_compound() does not\nbound these u8 counts. Reject a V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_HEVC_PPS with tiling\nenabled whose tile counts exceed the uAPI array capacity, mirroring the\nexisting compound-control range checks."
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            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
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              "value": "AV:L - The attacker-controlled bytes are num_tile_columns_minus1, num_tile_rows_minus1 and column_width_minus1[]/row_height_minus1[] in struct v4l2_ctrl_hevc_pps, copied from userspace by VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS through v4l_s_ext_ctrls \u2192 v4l2_s_ext_ctrls \u2192 user_to_new into std_validate_compound(); no network protocol carries those fields.\nAC:L - Setting V4L2_HEVC_PPS_FLAG_TILES_ENABLED with num_tile_columns_minus1>=20 or num_tile_rows_minus1>=22 is enough; the next decode job (hantro_g2_hevc_dec_run\u2192prepare_tile_info_buffer, rkvdec assemble_hw_pps\u2192compute_tiles_non_uniform, or cedrus_h265_setup\u2192cedrus_h265_write_tiles) uses those u8 counts as loop bounds with no race or hardware-fault precondition.\nPR:L - rkvdec_open(), hantro_open() and cedrus_open() perform no capable() check; v4l2_open only requires opening the decoder /dev/videoN. On Rockchip, Allwinner and Hantro devices that node is granted to unprivileged video-group or Android media-client users, not init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacking process opens the HEVC decoder itself, issues VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS with the crafted V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_HEVC_PPS, then QBUF/STREAMON via the request API. No separate victim mount, file-open, or playback action is required.\nS:U - The overflows remain in kernel stack (vdpu383 assemble_hw_pps column_width[22]), hantro tile_sizes DMA memory, and the rkvdec param_set PPS packet. This is kernel memory corruption under the same security authority, not a VM, IOMMU, or sandbox escape.\nC:H - cedrus_h265_write_tiles() and compute_tiles_non_uniform() index column_width_minus1[20] and row_height_minus1[22] with a u8 count up to 255, reading past the v4l2_ctrl_hevc_pps object into adjacent kernel heap that is then copied into stack and DMA tile buffers.\nI:H - compute_tiles_non_uniform() writes attacker-chosen column_width_minus1[i]+1 values past stack arrays column_width[20/22]; prepare_tile_info_buffer() writes up to 256x256 u16 pairs into a 20x22 tile_sizes DMA buffer; rkvdec_set_bw_field() stores COLUMN_WIDTH(i) past the 80-byte PPS packet.\nA:H - The stack smash of column_width/row_height, the tile_sizes DMA overflow, and rkvdec_set_bw_field() writes past param_set can walk into unmapped or poisoned memory and oops the kernel, and can wedge the HEVC decoder hardware. The trigger is repeatable at will."
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    "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:21:59.298Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-24T16:01:01.156Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T14:41:19.274Z",
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