CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-89896

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 16, 2026Sources checked Nov 10, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-89896. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026

Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

6.6.157.1-1

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-89896?

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

media: cedrus: fix memory leak in cedrus_init_ctrls()

In cedrus_init_ctrls(), the V4L2 control handler is initialized before allocating memory for ctx->ctrls. If this allocation fails, the function returns -ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated handler resources, leading to a memory leak.

Fix this by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the ctx->ctrls allocation failure path.

The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly available.

Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still present in v7.1.1.

An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have an Allwinner SoC or board with a Cedrus VPU available to test with, no runtime testing was able to be performed.

Source: NVD