CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64170

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 Linux kernel, the SPI QUP driver has an error pointer dereference after a DMA setup failure. The driver falls back to PIO mode but fails to clear DMA channel pointers, potentially causing a dereference of an error pointer or a double release on subsequent errors or driver unbind.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves possible system hangs or unpredictable behavior during SPI driver initialization, potentially affecting peripheral devices communicating via SPI.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that addresses this pointer dereference bug in the spi-qup driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: qup: 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 (or attempting to release a channel a second time) 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