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CVE-2024-35997

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the HID i2c-hid driver used the I2C_HID_READ_PENDING flag to serialize I2C operations, which was unnecessary (the I2C core has its own locking) and could cause a lock-up: if the flag was set and an interrupt occurred, the interrupt handler looped indefinitely, monopolizing the CPU. The fix removes this flag.

Risk Assessment

A full system lock-up is possible on devices using i2c-hid, leading to service unavailability and requiring a reboot.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2024-35997 that removes the I2C_HID_READ_PENDING flag.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: i2c-hid: remove I2C_HID_READ_PENDING flag to prevent lock-up The flag I2C_HID_READ_PENDING is used to serialize I2C operations. However, this is not necessary, because I2C core already has its own locking for that. More importantly, this flag can cause a lock-up: if the flag is set in i2c_hid_xfer() and an interrupt happens, the interrupt handler (i2c_hid_irq) will check this flag and return immediately without doing anything, then the interrupt handler will be invoked again in an infinite loop. Since interrupt handler is an RT task, it takes over the CPU and the flag-clearing task never gets scheduled, thus we have a lock-up. Delete this unnecessary flag.

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