CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-35997

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-20 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-05-20
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: i2c-hid: remove I2C_HID_READ_PENDING flag to prevent lock-up The flag I2C_HID_READ_PENDING is used to serialize I2C operations. However, this is not necessary, because I2C core already has its own locking for that. More importantly, this flag can cause a lock-up: if the flag is set in i2c_hid_xfer() and an interrupt happens, the interrupt handler (i2c_hid_irq) will check this flag and return immediately without doing anything, then the interrupt handler will be invoked again in an infinite loop. Since interrupt handler is an RT task, it takes over the CPU and the flag-clearing task never gets scheduled, thus we have a lock-up. Delete this unnecessary flag.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.8 < 4.19.313) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.275) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.216) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.158) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.90) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.30) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References