CVE-2026-74461 (GCVE-0-2026-74461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 12:27
Modified
2026-08-19 16:37
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: imx: Cancel hrtimer before clearing slave pointer
In i2c_imx_unreg_slave(), the slave pointer is set to NULL after
disabling interrupts. However, a pending interrupt might already
have started the hrtimer (i2c_imx_slave_timeout) before the pointer
was cleared. If the hrtimer fires after i2c_imx->slave is set to
NULL, the timer callback i2c_imx_slave_finish_op() will call
i2c_imx_slave_event() with a NULL slave pointer, which results in a
use-after-free / NULL pointer dereference.
Fix by canceling the hrtimer and waiting for it to complete after
disabling interrupts, before clearing the slave pointer.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 Version: f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 |
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