CVE-2026-98882
kernel: media: chips-media: wave5: Add range checks for dec_output_info
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 23, 2026
Updated · October 26, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Chips&Media Wave5 video processing driver. Missing bounds validation in the video decoder output handling allows the driver to write data outside allocated memory buffers. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) through a kernel crash or potentially corrupt system memory.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write