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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.4 High

CVE-2026-74461

i2c: imx: Cancel hrtimer before clearing slave pointer

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < e3da77bdb4015051656bb472c295656bbea03b6faffected
  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < 470fe15fb3bb2eba6629be301ca7e991ee3cfb7eaffected
  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < a8a1f9ac3d763e721586f15479ef9140b216ddf3affected
  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < 753060f2b77ff2f386addbd3ecadb95b9f90cdddaffected
  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < affd62f5719a78135b7441aa49c8cab3c3b5e838affected
  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < dab4762ee7f3fd0a01980d5407ba48d0261d3bffaffected
  • f7414cd6923fd7f78e57086fc964ba2dc25db5c1 to < 6ac7702b6cc2b94aaed9ef2d95bfbefcdc90061faffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.11affected
  • 0 to < 5.11unaffected
  • 5.15.216 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.183 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.151 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.103 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.44 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.8 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

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