CVE-2026-89873 (GCVE-0-2026-89873)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:31 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:54
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Title
media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts The HEVC SPS control carries the short-term and long-term RPS counts that decoder drivers use to walk the matching EXT SPS dynamic arrays. Reject SPS values that exceed the HEVC limits of 64 short-term sets and 32 long-term references so drivers cannot later index beyond those controls. Also reject EXT SPS ST RPS entries whose negative or positive picture counts exceed the 16-entry arrays, or whose combined delta-POC count exceeds the HEVC DPB maximum.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6971 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c9a59dc2acc72789d5c778af080d1e65af84862c , < 30f85a7c59113a8844b276efc010085a34f912e9 (git)
Affected: c9a59dc2acc72789d5c778af080d1e65af84862c , < 796b5c6d4f1615d59d5d8fe5a38fae6bfdfe878e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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