# CVE-2025-22028: media: vimc: skip .s_stream() for stopped entities

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel warning and potential instability in the vimc media driver by improperly stopping streaming entities.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-22028, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22028, GHSA-9q65-f9rx-r8m2, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-22028, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-22028, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-22028, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-22028, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22028

## What is CVE-2025-22028?

CVE-2025-22028 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

media: vimc: skip .s_stream() for stopped entities

Syzbot reported [1] a warning prompted by a check in call_s_stream()
that checks whether .s_stream() operation is warranted for unstarted
or stopped subdevs.

Add a simple fix in vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate() ensuring that
entities skip a call to .s_stream() unless they have been previously
properly started.

[1] Syzbot report:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5933 at drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c:460 call_s_stream+0x2df/0x350 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c:460
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5933 Comm: syz-executor330 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-syzkaller-00362-g2d8308bf5b67 #0
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate+0x218/0x320 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c:62
 vimc_streamer_pipeline_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c:101 [inline]
 vimc_streamer_s_stream+0x650/0x9a0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c:203
 vimc_capture_start_streaming+0xa1/0x130 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-capture.c:256
 vb2_start_streaming+0x15f/0x5a0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1789
 vb2_core_streamon+0x2a7/0x450 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2348
 vb2_streamon drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:875 [inline]
 vb2_ioctl_streamon+0xf4/0x170 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1118
 __video_do_ioctl+0xaf0/0xf00 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3122
 video_usercopy+0x4d2/0x1620 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3463
 v4l2_ioctl+0x1ba/0x250 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:366
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x190/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:892
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2b85c01b19
...

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22028?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22028?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-22028 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22028 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22028 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22028 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22028 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22028/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22028/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22028
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22028
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22028

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22028/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.