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CVE-2026-74547

Low risk· EPSS 7%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the hwmon adt7470 driver, setting auto_update_interval to 0 via sysfs causes the update thread to loop tightly, leading to continuous CPU usage and flooding the I2C bus. The fix raises the lower limit of the interval to 500 ms.

Risk Assessment

A local user can intentionally or accidentally set the interval to 0, leading to a DoS attack on the I2C bus and CPU overload.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that sets a minimum update interval of 500 ms to prevent busy-looping.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (adt7470) Fix busy-loop and I2C flooding in update thread When userspace configures 'auto_update_interval' to 0 via sysfs, the background kthread executes schedule_timeout_interruptible(0), which returns immediately. If 'num_temp_sensors' is concurrently or previously set to 0, the msleep_interruptible() delay inside adt7470_read_temperatures() also becomes 0. This combination forces the background thread into a tight, unbounded busy-loop, hogging the CPU and flooding the I2C bus with a continuous stream of transactions. Fix this vulnerability by raising the lower limit of the clamp_val in auto_update_interval_store() from 0 to 500 milliseconds. This guarantees a reasonable minimum sleep window between sensor updates, protecting the system from intentional or accidental I2C bus denial of service.

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