CVE-2026-74547
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (adt7470) Fix busy-loop and I2C flooding in update thread
When userspace configures 'auto_update_interval' to 0 via sysfs, the
background kthread executes schedule_timeout_interruptible(0), which
returns immediately.
If 'num_temp_sensors' is concurrently or previously set to 0, the
msleep_interruptible() delay inside adt7470_read_temperatures() also
becomes 0. This combination forces the background thread into a tight,
unbounded busy-loop, hogging the CPU and flooding the I2C bus with a
continuous stream of transactions.
Fix this vulnerability by raising the lower limit of the clamp_val in
auto_update_interval_store() from 0 to 500 milliseconds. This guarantees
a reasonable minimum sleep window between sensor updates, protecting the
system from intentional or accidental I2C bus denial of service.
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1325975a2eab265510e6036d8bf0c0068373d332
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a42bd72a66205e439db1d1142442b62d393408a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4c4d7cadd10b50b5489183bbbb9eb95f6f8344
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38e6b5ce5794ff09442231cc171c2be5e900bab3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dc1518f9cc57c6db99514cafeb02dd7117d5bda