Power-management disruption via leaked runtime references
Published May 28, 2026 · Updated May 28, 2026
Resource leak in the Linux Kernel ov5647 driver 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows local users to keep the camera device active via control changes. The ov5647_s_ctrl function returns from three control cases without calling pm_runtime_put, leaking a reference acquired by pm_runtime_resume_and_get. An ov5647 device and local access to issue AUTOGAIN, EXPOSURE_AUTO, or ANALOGUE_GAIN controls are required; no data access or code execution is reported.
Summary
What happened
Resource leak in the Linux Kernel ov5647 driver 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows local users to keep the camera device active via control changes. The ov5647_s_ctrl function returns from three control cases without calling pm_runtime_put, leaking a reference acquired by pm_runtime_resume_and_get. An ov5647 device and local access to issue AUTOGAIN, EXPOSURE_AUTO, or ANALOGUE_GAIN controls are required; no data access or code execution is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-46239
- Published
- May 28, 2026
- Updated
- May 28, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 28, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4f66f36388d5668c215f107a4e1ce1a707251ff5 <6b03ecf75bda5900b8e661eb75656f631b598bc2
- Affected versionversion=4f66f36388d5668c215f107a4e1ce1a707251ff5 <f11ae9c04f8368a3b5a0280ef595198dace1c983
- Affected versionversion=7.0
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