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🛡️ CVE-2026-23369 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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Description

i2c: i801: Revert "i2c: i801: replace acpi_lock with I2C bus lock"

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i2c: i801: Revert "i2c: i801: replace acpi_lock with I2C bus lock"

This reverts commit f707d6b9e7c18f669adfdb443906d46cfbaaa0c1.

Under rare circumstances, multiple udev threads can collect i801 device

info on boot and walk i801_acpi_io_handler somewhat concurrently. The

first will note the area is reserved by acpi to prevent further touches.

This ultimately causes the area to be deregistered. The second will

enter i801_acpi_io_handler after the area is unregistered but before a

check can be made that the area is unregistered. i2c_lock_bus relies on

the now unregistered area containing lock_ops to lock the bus. The end

result is a kernel panic on boot with the following backtrace;

[ 14.971872] ioatdma 0000:09:00.2: enabling device (0100 -> 0102)

[ 14.971873] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000

[ 14.971880] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

[ 14.971884] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

[ 14.971887] PGD 0 P4D 0

[ 14.971894] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

[ 14.971900] CPU: 5 PID: 956 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.x86_64 #1

[ 14.971905] Hardware name: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BIOS 1.20.10.SV91 01/30/2023

[ 14.971908] RIP: 0010:i801_acpi_io_handler+0x2d/0xb0 [i2c_i801]

[ 14.971929] Code: 00 00 49 8b 40 20 41 57 41 56 4d 8b b8 30 04 00 00 49 89 ce 41 55 41 89 d5 41 54 49 89 f4 be 02 00 00 00 55 4c 89 c5 53 89 fb <48> 8b 00 4c 89 c7 e8 18 61 54 e9 80 bd 80 04 00 00 00 75 09 4c 3b

[ 14.971933] RSP: 0018:ffffbaa841483838 EFLAGS: 00010282

[ 14.971938] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff9685e01ba568

[ 14.971941] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000000

[ 14.971944] RBP: ffff9685ca22f028 R08: ffff9685ca22f028 R09: ffff9685ca22f028

[ 14.971948] R10: 000000000000000b R11: 0000000000000580 R12: 0000000000000580

[ 14.971951] R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffff9685e01ba568 R15: ffff9685c222f000

[ 14.971954] FS: 00007f8287c0ab40(0000) GS:ffff96a47f940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 14.971959] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 14.971963] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000168090001 CR4: 00000000003706f0

[ 14.971966] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

[ 14.971968] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

[ 14.971972] Call Trace:

[ 14.971977] <TASK>

[ 14.971981] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df

[ 14.971994] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df

[ 14.972003] ? acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch+0x16e/0x3c0

[ 14.972014] ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xd

[ 14.972021] ? page_fault_oops+0x132/0x170

[ 14.972028] ? exc_page_fault+0x61/0x150

[ 14.972036] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30

[ 14.972045] ? i801_acpi_io_handler+0x2d/0xb0 [i2c_i801]

[ 14.972061] acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch+0x16e/0x3c0

[ 14.972069] ? __pfx_i801_acpi_io_handler+0x10/0x10 [i2c_i801]

[ 14.972085] acpi_ex_access_region+0x5b/0xd0

[ 14.972093] acpi_ex_field_datum_io+0x73/0x2e0

[ 14.972100] acpi_ex_read_data_from_field+0x8e/0x230

[ 14.972106] acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value+0x23d/0x310

[ 14.972114] acpi_ds_evaluate_name_path+0xad/0x110

[ 14.972121] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x321/0x510

[ 14.972127] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0xf7/0x680

[ 14.972136] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x17a/0x3d0

[ 14.972143] acpi_ps_execute_method+0x137/0x270

[ 14.972150] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1f4/0x2e0

[ 14.972158] acpi_evaluate_object+0x134/0x2f0

[ 14.972164] acpi_evaluate_integer+0x50/0xe0

[ 14.972173] ? vsnprintf+0x24b/0x570

[ 14.972181] acpi_ac_get_state.part.0+0x23/0x70

[ 14.972189] get_ac_property+0x4e/0x60

[ 14.972195] power_supply_show_property+0x90/0x1f0

[ 14.972205] add_prop_uevent+0x29/0x90

[ 14.972213] power_supply_uevent+0x109/0x1d0

[ 14.972222] dev_uevent+0x10e/0x2f0

[ 14.972228] uevent_show+0x8e/0x100

[ 14.972236] dev_attr_show+0x19

---truncated---

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2026-23369 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.19.0 up to 6.19.7)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 25 March 2026 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2026-23369 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.19.0 6.19.7
linux-kernel

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