Upstream information

CVE-2026-43246 at MITRE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()

In one of the error paths in tw9906_probe(), the memory allocated in
v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that
by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1264322 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 6 16:02:38 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri May 8 12:09:00 2026