CVE-2026-43218 media: i2c/tw9903: Fix potential memory leak in tw9903_probe()

What is CVE-2026-43218?

CVE-2026-43218 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 May 2026. 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: i2c/tw9903: Fix potential memory leak in tw9903_probe()

In one of the error paths in tw9903_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.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43218?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-43218?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-43218 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43218 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-43218, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43218, GHSA-h3jc-6rcx-xcc3, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-43218, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-43218, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-43218 and 1 more.