CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53400

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.10%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's I2C subsystem, there is a race condition during adapter registration. The adapter can be looked up via i2c_get_adapter() before its struct device is fully initialized, leading to access to uninitialized data and potential NULL-pointer dereference or use-after-free.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit the race to cause a kernel crash or memory safety violation by accessing uninitialized data.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that ensures the adapter is initialized before being added to the IDR to avoid the race.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: core: fix adapter registration race Adapters can be looked up based on their id using i2c_get_adapter() which takes a reference to the embedded struct device. Make sure that the adapter (including its struct device) has been initialised before adding it to the IDR to avoid accessing uninitialised data which could, for example, lead to NULL-pointer dereferences or use-after-free. Note that the i2c-dev chardev, which is registered from a bus notifier, currently uses i2c_get_adapter() so the adapter needs to be added to the IDR before registration.

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