CVE-2026-46011: media: mtk-jpeg: fix use-after-free in release path due to uncancelled work
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mtk-jpeg: fix use-after-free in release path due to uncancelled work The mtk_jpeg_release() function frees the context structure (ctx) without first cancelling any pending or running work in ctx->jpeg_work. This creates a race window where the workqueue callback may still be accessing the context memory after it has been freed. Race condition: CPU 0 (release) CPU 1 (workqueue) ---------------- ------------------ close() mtk_jpeg_release() mtk_jpegenc_worker() ctx = work->data // accessing ctx kfree(ctx) // freed! access ctx // UAF! The work is queued via queue_work() during JPEG encode/decode operations (via mtk_jpeg_device_run). If the device is closed while work is pending or running, the work handler will access freed memory. Fix this by calling cancel_work_sync() BEFORE acquiring the mutex. This ordering is critical: if cancel_work_sync() is called after mutex_lock(), and the work handler also tries to acquire the same mutex, it would cause a deadlock. Note: The open error path does NOT need cancel_work_sync() because INIT_WORK() only initializes the work structure - it does not schedule it. Work is only scheduled later during ioctl operations.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 2209fdae5c2f615930c9af1379c1cfca199ec5d8 (from 5fb1c2361e5630491d2a2f9359654eb022601bc0) · < 0498b27a1542021d90269d58347501d4c3ccd84e (from 5fb1c2361e5630491d2a2f9359654eb022601bc0) · < 26506a30e0e26d612f82a7bf0e395626968a44e6 (from 5fb1c2361e5630491d2a2f9359654eb022601bc0) · < e78c39f720679fcf3a2eacd82725ec3ea2648301 (from 5fb1c2361e5630491d2a2f9359654eb022601bc0) · < 34c519feef3e4fcff1078dc8bdb25fbbbd10303f (from 5fb1c2361e5630491d2a2f9359654eb022601bc0)
- Linux / Linux6.2Fixed in 0, 6.6.140, 6.12.86, 6.18.27, 7.0.4, 7.1-rc1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H