ghsa-hmc7-frwx-fp3p
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-08-22 18:31
Modified
2025-08-28 15:30
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i2c: qup: jump out of the loop in case of timeout

Original logic only sets the return value but doesn't jump out of the loop if the bus is kept active by a client. This is not expected. A malicious or buggy i2c client can hang the kernel in this case and should be avoided. This is observed during a long time test with a PCA953x GPIO extender.

Fix it by changing the logic to not only sets the return value, but also jumps out of the loop and return to the caller with -ETIMEDOUT.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
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  "id": "GHSA-hmc7-frwx-fp3p",
  "modified": "2025-08-28T15:30:39Z",
  "published": "2025-08-22T18:31:23Z",
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