CVE-2026-53279
MediumCVSS 5.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the gma500 DRM driver for Oaktrail LVDS displays has a bug causing a hang during initialization. The LVDS init code retrieves an I2C adapter via i2c_get_adapter() and on failure attempts to deregister and free also that adapter, which was not allocated by the driver. Since i2c_get_adapter() increments the reference count, the deregistration waits indefinitely for the reference to be released, resulting in a permanent hang.
Risk Assessment
An organization may experience a complete system hang during boot or when an LVDS display is connected, preventing operation and requiring a manual reboot. This vulnerability affects systems running Linux kernel with the legacy gma500 graphics driver, such as embedded systems or older laptops.
Recommendation
Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit in drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds). If an update is not possible, temporarily disable LVDS support in the gma500 driver via kernel parameter or module blacklist.
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds: fix hang on init failure The LVDS init code looks up an I2C adapter using i2c_get_adapter() and tries to read the EDID before falling back to allocating and registering its own adapter. The error handling does not separate these cases so on a late init failure it will try to deregister and free also an adapter that had previously been registered. Since i2c_get_adapter() takes another reference to the adapter, deregistration hangs indefinitely while waiting for the reference to be released. Fix this by only destroying adapters allocated during LVDS init on errors.

