Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-64602

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Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-64602

Published: August 7, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU141254
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-64602
CWE-ID: CWE-824
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to an uninitialized pointer dereference in the spear_adc_probe() initialization path and interrupt handler in drivers/iio/adc/spear_adc.c when handling a device interrupt before completion initialization. A local user can trigger a spurious interrupt during device probe to cause a denial of service.

The issue can lead to a kernel panic and was observed as a KASAN wild-memory-access caused by complete() operating on an uninitialized completion object.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2026-64602

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-31.31, 7.0.0-31.31.1, 7.0.0-31.31~24.04.1, 7.0.0-1006.7, 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1, 7.0.0-1012.12, 7.0.0-1012.12~24.04.1
linux-gcp-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1013.13

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