DMA ring disruption via unsynchronized timeout dequeue
Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026
Race condition in the MIPI I3C HCI driver in Linux Kernel allows local users to disrupt DMA ring handling through overlapping transfer timeouts. hci_dma_dequeue_xfer() stops, processes, and restarts the shared ring without serialization, so concurrent timeout handlers interfere with one another. Reachability requires local access to a system using the MIPI I3C HCI DMA path; the published record identifies unexpected ring transitions but no demonstrated crash or data corruption.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in the MIPI I3C HCI driver in Linux Kernel allows local users to disrupt DMA ring handling through overlapping transfer timeouts. hci_dma_dequeue_xfer() stops, processes, and restarts the shared ring without serialization, so concurrent timeout handlers interfere with one another. Reachability requires local access to a system using the MIPI I3C HCI DMA path; the published record identifies unexpected ring transitions but no demonstrated crash or data corruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-43353
- Published
- May 8, 2026
- Updated
- May 8, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 8, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.11
- Affected versionversion=9ad9a52cce2828d932ae9495181e3d6414f72c07 <1dca8aee80eea76d2aae21265de5dd64f6ba0f09
- Affected versionversion=9ad9a52cce2828d932ae9495181e3d6414f72c07 <4faa1e9c67a2229f6749190aedaf88ce0391efd2
- Affected versionversion=9ad9a52cce2828d932ae9495181e3d6414f72c07 <b684b420a5bb0ea1b0e13abfdb8ce41c5266e62e
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