CVE-2026-68217

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's pwc media driver. When initiating a streaming operation, if an error occurs during the submission of isochronous USB Request Blocks URBs, a buffer may not be correctly deallocated. This oversight can lead to a resource leak, potentially causing system...

CVE-2026-68216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Return queued buffers on startstreaming failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via bufqueue before calling startstreaming. If startstreaming returns an error without first returning those buffers via...

CVE-2026-68217

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Drain fillbuf on startstreaming failure pwcisocinit submits its isochronous URBs with usbsubmiturb.., GFPKERNEL in a loop. After the first URB is submitted, its completion handler pwcisochandler can run on another CPU...

CVE-2026-68216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Return queued buffers on startstreaming failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via bufqueue before calling startstreaming. If startstreaming returns an error without first returning those buffers via...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68217

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Drain fillbuf on startstreaming failure pwcisocinit submits its isochronous URBs with usbsubmiturb.., GFPKERNEL in a loop. After the first URB is submitted, its completion handler pwcisochandler can run on another CPU...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Return queued buffers on startstreaming failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via bufqueue before calling startstreaming. If startstreaming returns an error without first returning those buffers via...

CVE-2026-68217

Technical details (affected product/version, root cause, impact, or fix) are not publicly provided in the supplied documents. Monitor for updates.

EUVD-2026-55318

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Drain fillbuf on startstreaming failure pwcisocinit submits its isochronous URBs with usbsubmiturb.., GFPKERNEL in a loop. After the first URB is submitted, its completion handler pwcisochandler can run on another CPU...

CVE-2026-68216

Summary of CVE-2026-68216 (Linux kernel pwc driver): A fix addresses a resource leak in start_streaming() for the pwc media driver. When start_streaming() fails, buffers queued via vb2_buffer_done() were not returned, causing vb2_start_streaming() to WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count). The two early-fai...

CVE-2026-68216 media: pwc: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Return queued buffers on startstreaming failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via bufqueue before calling startstreaming. If startstreaming returns an error without first returning those buffers via...

EUVD-2026-55317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Return queued buffers on startstreaming failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via bufqueue before calling startstreaming. If startstreaming returns an error without first returning those buffers via...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-68217

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - media: pwc: Drain fillbuf on startstreaming failure pwcisocinit submits its isochronous URBs with usbsubmiturb.., GFPKERNEL in a loop. After the first URB is...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-68216

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - media: pwc: Return queued buffers on startstreaming failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via bufqueue before calling startstreaming. If...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:105)

The CIFS filesystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22, when Unix extension support is enabled, does not honor the umask of a process, which allows local users to gain privileges. CVE-2007-3740 The drm/i915 component in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.2, when used with i965G and later chipsets,...

Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities USN-578-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-578-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5781.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities USN-578-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-574-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.17/20/22 vulnerabilities USN-574-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-574-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5741.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.17/20/22 vulnerabilities USN-574-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0972)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2008:0972 advisory. - kernel PWC driver DoS CVE-2007-5093 - kernel: dio: zero struct dio with kzalloc instead of manually CVE-2007-6716 - kernel: ptrace: Paddin...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon with...

USN-578-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

The minix filesystem did not properly validate certain filesystem values. If a local attacker could trick the system into attempting to mount a corrupted minix filesystem, the kernel could be made to hang for long periods of time, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2006-6058 Alexander Schulze...