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FKIE_CVE-2026-72141

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:21 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:18

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: imx: fix locked bus on SMBus block-read of 0 (IRQ) SMBus 3.1 6.5.7 allows a Block Read byte count of 0, but the interrupt-driven block-read state machine rejects it as -EPROTO. Worse, it returns without a NACK+STOP: the next receive cycle has already started, so the target keeps holding SDA and the bus stays stuck until a power cycle of this i2c controller. Accept count=0: NACK the in-flight dummy byte (TXAK) and set msg->len to 2 so i2c_imx_isr_read_continue() emits STOP via its normal last-byte path. The dummy byte is discarded; block-read callers only consume buf[0..count-1]. Reading I2DR has likewise already armed the next byte on the count > I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX error path, so NACK it (TXAK) before aborting with -EPROTO; otherwise the failing transfer's STOP cannot complete and the bus stays held. The atomic path regressed earlier (v3.16) and is fixed separately; this patch covers only the v6.13 state-machine rework.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07fd9385f0d87dff4b34f355f68adf701080cb24
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ddfc18ea8f7d77747658892873eb632b2ed530
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d3240f42a667e29262aff76fdebfcdac4980626

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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CVE-2026-72141 (GCVE-0-2026-72141)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:53 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:40

Title

i2c: imx: fix locked bus on SMBus block-read of 0 (IRQ)

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d3240f42a667e292…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ddfc18ea8f7d777…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07fd9385f0d87dff4…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5f5c2d4579ca6836f5604cca979debd68ecfe23f , < 5d3240f42a667e29262aff76fdebfcdac4980626 (git) Affected: 5f5c2d4579ca6836f5604cca979debd68ecfe23f , < 56ddfc18ea8f7d77747658892873eb632b2ed530 (git) Affected: 5f5c2d4579ca6836f5604cca979debd68ecfe23f , < 07fd9385f0d87dff4b34f355f68adf701080cb24 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-72141 (GCVE-0-2026-72141)

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