CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46296

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the s3c64xx SPI driver in the Linux kernel, a NULL pointer dereference occurs on driver unbind. A change moving DMA channel allocation from probe() to s3c64xx_spi_prepare_transfer() did not remove the corresponding deallocation from remove(). The fix drops the bogus DMA channel release from remove().

Risk Assessment

The risk is a system crash or kernel panic during driver unbind, which could affect system stability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix for the s3c64xx SPI driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: s3c64xx: fix NULL-deref on driver unbind A change moving DMA channel allocation from probe() back to s3c64xx_spi_prepare_transfer() failed to remove the corresponding deallocation from remove(). Drop the bogus DMA channel release from remove() to avoid triggering a NULL-pointer dereference on driver unbind. This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a controller deregistration fix.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS