CVE-2026-89873: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts
Published
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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