CVE-2026-74461

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: imx: Cancel hrtimer before clearing slave pointer In i2c_imx_unreg_slave(), the slave pointer is set to NULL after disabling interrupts. However, a pending interrupt might already have started the hrtimer (i2c_imx_slave_timeout) before the pointer was cleared. If the hrtimer fires after i2c_imx->slave is set to NULL, the timer callback i2c_imx_slave_finish_op() will call i2c_imx_slave_event() with a NULL slave pointer, which results in a use-after-free / NULL pointer dereference. Fix by canceling the hrtimer and waiting for it to complete after disabling interrupts, before clearing the slave pointer.

CVSS 3.1

8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2026-08-15

Modified

2026-10-16

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/470fe15fb3bb2eba6629be301ca7e991ee3cfb7e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ac7702b6cc2b94aaed9ef2d95bfbefcdc90061f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/753060f2b77ff2f386addbd3ecadb95b9f90cddd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a1f9ac3d763e721586f15479ef9140b216ddf3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/affd62f5719a78135b7441aa49c8cab3c3b5e838

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