CVE-2026-98882 media: chips-media: wave5: Add range checks for dec_output_info
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Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98882 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-98882 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 23 Oct 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98882 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Linux. 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-2026-98882/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98882/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-98882?
CVE-2026-98882 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 23 Oct 2026.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: chips-media: wave5: Add range checks for dec_output_info
If the driver's dec_output_info contains invalid data the driver can write in invalid memory. Add a range check for that.
This fixes this smatch error: drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpuapi.c:588 wave5_vpu_dec_get_output_info() error: buffer overflow 'inst->frame_buf' 64 <= 127
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-98882?
How do I fix CVE-2026-98882?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2026-98882 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98882 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-110561, BELL-CVE-2026-98882, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98882, GHSA-fg2v-3chx-7cvc, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98882.