CVE-2026-68467 (GCVE-0-2026-68467)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:39
VLAI
Title
mtd: mchp23k256: use SPI match data for chip caps
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: mchp23k256: use SPI match data for chip caps The driver stores chip capacity information in both the OF match table and the SPI id table. Probe currently uses of_device_get_match_data(), so a non-OF SPI modalias match falls back to mchp23k256_caps even when the SPI id table selected a different part. Use spi_get_device_match_data() so SPI id-table driver_data is consumed when OF match data is absent. This keeps the existing default fallback while avoiding the wrong MTD geometry for id-table-only matches.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < 2e179b028da9fd628a09286a2c9df4fa076b2cc9 (git)
Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < a0c38083623c8b210a5b87fd34bebd05aa935ae8 (git)
Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < 7c0a3a73dccc9a3fc701f6be762449f18d0ca0fc (git)
Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < dbe2254d1da99c986f9a3392471fc5eaa3229647 (git)
Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < 04ebd3766861f219325852c9598e0f0281cb3636 (git)
Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < 09e044192a42f716215fbd1a100ee87fa57426aa (git)
Affected: 4379075a870b8de43a9ecd5b46884953234fc669 , < d322e40f4edf92bf0ca329e5aa4ae1c0316feb38 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (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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