Kernel crash via premature ADV7511 IRQ registration
Published Apr 17, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
Use of uninitialized data in the ADV7511 bridge driver in affected Linux kernels allows local users to crash the kernel during probe. adv7511_probe registers the IRQ before adv7511_cec_init initializes CEC state, so a pending interrupt reaches cec_received_msg_ts with unreadable data. Exploitation requires an ADV7511 device and a pending IRQ during driver probe; the documented result is an availability-only kernel oops.
Summary
What happened
Use of uninitialized data in the ADV7511 bridge driver in affected Linux kernels allows local users to crash the kernel during probe. adv7511_probe registers the IRQ before adv7511_cec_init initializes CEC state, so a pending interrupt reaches cec_received_msg_ts with unreadable data. Exploitation requires an ADV7511 device and a pending IRQ during driver probe; the documented result is an availability-only kernel oops.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26876
- Published
- Apr 17, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-908, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=3b1b975003e4a3da4b93ab032487a3ae4afca7b5 <28a94271bd50e4cf498df0381f776f8ea40a289e
- Affected versionversion=3b1b975003e4a3da4b93ab032487a3ae4afca7b5 <50f4b57e9a9db4ede9294f39b9e75b5f26bae9b7
- Affected versionversion=3b1b975003e4a3da4b93ab032487a3ae4afca7b5 <955c1252930677762e0db2b6b9e36938c887445c
- Affected versionversion=3b1b975003e4a3da4b93ab032487a3ae4afca7b5 <aeedaee5ef5468caf59e2bb1265c2116e0c9a924
- Affected versionversion=4.15
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