CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64587

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's ARC EMAC ethernet driver, there is a vulnerability where interrupts are not quiesced before requesting IRQ. This may allow stale or latched interrupts to be delivered during teardown, leading to a race with net_device release.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential system crash or incorrect network driver behavior due to a race between interrupt and resource release.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix that disables all EMAC interrupt sources and clears pending interrupt status bits before requesting IRQ.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: arc: emac: quiesce interrupts before requesting IRQ Normal RX/TX interrupts are enabled later, in arc_emac_open(), so probe should not see interrupt delivery in the usual case. However, hardware may still present stale or latched interrupt status left by firmware or the bootloader. If probe later unwinds after devm_request_irq() has installed the handler, such a stale interrupt can still reach arc_emac_intr() during teardown and race with release of the associated net_device. Avoid that window by putting the device into a known quiescent state before requesting the IRQ: disable all EMAC interrupt sources and clear any pending EMAC interrupt status bits. This keeps the change hardware-focused and minimal, while preventing spurious IRQ delivery from leftover state.

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