CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64236

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 i2c:davinci driver in the Linux kernel, a missing 'clock-frequency' device tree property caused a division by zero. The default value was defined in kHz instead of Hz, leading to a kernel panic.

Risk Assessment

Division by zero causes an immediate kernel panic, crashing systems with missing I2C configuration.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that redefines DAVINCI_I2C_DEFAULT_BUS_FREQ in Hz (100000) to prevent division by zero.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: davinci: fix division by zero on missing clock-frequency When the 'clock-frequency' property is missing from the device tree, the driver falls back to DAVINCI_I2C_DEFAULT_BUS_FREQ. However, this macro was defined in kHz (100), whereas the device tree property is expected in Hz. The probe function divided the fallback value by 1000, causing integer truncation that resulted in dev->bus_freq = 0. This triggered a deterministic division-by-zero kernel panic when calculating clock dividers later in the probe sequence. Fix this by redefining DAVINCI_I2C_DEFAULT_BUS_FREQ in Hz (100000) to match the expected device tree property unit, allowing the existing division logic to work correctly for both cases.

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