CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53307

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 Linux kernel pinctrl subsystem (pinconf-generic), a vulnerability was found due to incomplete validation of the 'pinmux' property in the device tree. The pinconf_generic_parse_dt_pinmux() function assumes the 'pinmux' property is not empty when present, which can cause the allocator to return a special value instead of NULL, leading to a crash when accessing invalid memory.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves a potential kernel panic (crash) triggered by supplying an empty 'pinmux' property in the device tree, leading to a denial of service (DoS) on the system.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds full validation of the 'pinmux' property length and content.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: pinconf-generic: Fully validate 'pinmux' property The pinconf_generic_parse_dt_pinmux() assumes that the 'pinmux' property is not empty when present. This might be not true. With that, the allocator will give a special value in return and not NULL which lead to the crash when trying to access that (invalid) memory. Fix that by fully validating 'pinmux' value, including its length.

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