CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31487
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- 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:
spi: use generic driver_override infrastructure
When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.
Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.
Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]
Also note that we do not enable the driver_override feature of struct
bus_type, as SPI - in contrast to most other buses - passes "" to
sysfs_emit() when the driver_override pointer is NULL. Thus, printing
"\n" instead of "(null)\n".
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20.1 < 6.12.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.11)
• linux linux kernel 4.20
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e8eb467bed6aa1a563dba8f366c9fd76ba0004e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73a58661a760373d08a6883af4f0bb5cc991a67 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc34d77dd48708d810c12bfd6f5bf03304f6c824 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0ae367a2de06c49aa1de6ec9b1ab6860bbb2cf0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eedf220442d13b6d97294e5b0ac8a2c38ee1a1a0 Patch