CVE-2026-43247 media: chips-media: wave5: Fix SError of kernel panic when closed
A kernel panic occurs in the wave5 media driver when the device enters suspend mode due to an autosuspend timeout, causing a system crash.
- 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
What is CVE-2026-43247?
CVE-2026-43247 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: chips-media: wave5: Fix SError of kernel panic when closed
SError of kernel panic rarely happened while testing fluster. The root cause was to enter suspend mode because timeout of autosuspend delay happened.
[ 48.834439] SError Interrupt on CPU0, code 0x00000000bf000000 -- SError [ 48.834455] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1067 Comm: v4l2h265dec0:sr Not tainted 6.12.9-gc9e21a1ebd75-dirty #7 [ 48.834461] Hardware name: ti Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM/Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM, BIOS 2025.01-00345-gbaf3aaa8ecfa 01/01/2025 [ 48.834464] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 48.834468] pc : wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834488] lr : wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834495] sp : ffff8000856e3a30 [ 48.834497] x29: ffff8000856e3a30 x28: ffff0008093f6010 x27: ffff000809158130 [ 48.834504] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff00080b625000 x24: ffff000804a9ba80 [ 48.834509] x23: ffff000802343028 x22: ffff000809158150 x21: ffff000802218000 [ 48.834513] x20: ffff0008093f6000 x19: ffff0008093f6000 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 48.834518] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000ffff74009618 [ 48.834523] x14: 000000010000000c x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 48.834527] x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: ffffffffffffffff x9 : ffff000802343028 [ 48.834532] x8 : ffff00080b6252a0 x7 : 0000000000000038 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 48.834536] x5 : ffff00080b625060 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 48.834541] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff800084bf0118 x0 : ffff800084bf0000 [ 48.834547] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt [ 48.834549] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1067 Comm: v4l2h265dec0:sr Not tainted 6.12.9-gc9e21a1ebd75-dirty #7 [ 48.834554] Hardware name: ti Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM/Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM, BIOS 2025.01-00345-gbaf3aaa8ecfa 01/01/2025 [ 48.834556] Call trace: [ 48.834559] dump_backtrace+0x94/0xec [ 48.834574] show_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 48.834579] dump_stack_lvl+0x38/0x90 [ 48.834585] dump_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 48.834588] panic+0x35c/0x3e0 [ 48.834592] nmi_panic+0x40/0x8c [ 48.834595] arm64_serror_panic+0x64/0x70 [ 48.834598] do_serror+0x3c/0x78 [ 48.834601] el1h_64_error_handler+0x34/0x4c [ 48.834605] el1h_64_error+0x64/0x68 [ 48.834608] wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834615] wave5_vpu_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x54/0x80 [wave5] [ 48.834622] wave5_vpu_dec_buf_queue+0x19c/0x1a0 [wave5] [ 48.834628] __enqueue_in_driver+0x3c/0x74 [videobuf2_common] [ 48.834639] vb2_core_qbuf+0x508/0x61c [videobuf2_common] [ 48.834646] vb2_qbuf+0xa4/0x168 [videobuf2_v4l2] [ 48.834656] v4l2_m2m_qbuf+0x80/0x238 [v4l2_mem2mem] [ 48.834666] v4l2_m2m_ioctl_qbuf+0x18/0x24 [v4l2_mem2mem] [ 48.834673] v4l_qbuf+0x48/0x5c [videodev] [ 48.834704] __video_do_ioctl+0x180/0x3f0 [videodev] [ 48.834725] video_usercopy+0x2ec/0x68c [videodev] [ 48.834745] video_ioctl2+0x18/0x24 [videodev] [ 48.834766] v4l2_ioctl+0x40/0x60 [videodev] [ 48.834786] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec [ 48.834793] invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100 [ 48.834800] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0 [ 48.834804] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 [ 48.834809] el0_svc+0x30/0xd0 [ 48.834813] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4 [ 48.834816] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 48.834820] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 48.834831] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 48.834833] CPU features: 0x08,00002002,80200000,4200421b [ 48.834837] Memory Limit: none [ 49.161404] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt ]---
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43247?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2026-43247?
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-2026-43247 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43247 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-43247, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43247, GHSA-f5wm-6c22-vm3q, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43247.