CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64169

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the ep93xx SPI driver. After a DMA setup failure during probe, the driver falls back to PIO mode but fails to clear DMA channel pointers, leading to an error pointer dereference on subsequent probe errors or driver unbind.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves a potential kernel panic or system crash during error handling of the SPI driver initialization, which could disrupt devices relying on this interface.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that resolves the error pointer dereference in the spi-ep93xx driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: ep93xx: fix error pointer deref after DMA setup failure The driver falls back to PIO mode if DMA setup fails during probe. Make sure to the clear the DMA channel pointers on setup failure to avoid dereferencing an error pointer on later probe errors or driver unbind. This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a devres allocation conversion patch.

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