CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64168

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the SPI driver for Spreadtrum (sprd) SoCs, an error pointer dereference occurs after a DMA setup failure. The driver falls back to PIO mode, but on late probe errors it may attempt to release an invalid DMA pointer or release a channel twice, leading to a crash.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability can cause a kernel panic or unpredictable behavior during SPI driver initialization, affecting system stability for devices using this interface.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch immediately by updating to a stable release containing the fix. If an update is not feasible, verify if the sprd-spi driver is in use and consider disabling it.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: sprd: fix error pointer deref after DMA setup failure The driver falls back to PIO mode if DMA setup fails during probe. Make sure to check the dma.enabled flag before trying to release the DMA channels also on late probe errors to avoid dereferencing an error pointer (or attempting to release a channel a second time). This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a devres allocation conversion patch.

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