CVE-2026-89887EPSS p6.5%
CVE-2026-89887CVE-2026-89887
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: i2c: ov7740: fix use-after-destroy in remove
The ov7740_remove() function had a severe teardown order bug where it
destroyed the driver's mutex before freeing the V4L2 control handler
which relies on that mutex, leading to a use-after-destroy kernel panic.
Furthermore, the driver explicitly called v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() and
mutex_destroy() sequentially, but then called ov7740_free_controls()
which invokes both of them a second time, resulting in a double-free.
This patch fixes the issue by unregistering the subdevice first, and
relying exclusively on ov7740_free_controls() to safely tear down the
mutex and control handler in the correct order.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.18% probability of exploitation · percentile 6.5% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-16 |