CVE-2026-64168

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

19/07/2026

Last modified:

13/08/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: sprd: fix error pointer deref after DMA setup failure The driver falls back to PIO mode if DMA setup fails during probe. Make sure to check the dma.enabled flag before trying to release the DMA channels also on late probe errors to avoid dereferencing an error pointer (or attempting to release a channel a second time). This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a devres allocation conversion patch.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.1 (including)	5.10.258 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.209 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.175 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.142 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.92 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.18.34 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.19 (including)	7.0.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2026-64168

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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