In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: fsl-lpspi: terminate the RX channel on TX prepare failure path When dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() fails for the TX channel, the error path terminates the TX DMA channel but leaves the RX channel running. Since the RX channel was already submitted and issued prior to preparing the TX descriptor, returning -EINVAL causes the SPI core to unmap the DMA buffers while the RX DMA engine continues writing to them, leading to potential memory corruption or use-after-free. Terminate the RX channel before returning on the TX prepare failure path.
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CVE-2026-64303 is a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Freescale LPSPI SPI driver that affects DMA channel management during error conditions. When the TX DMA channel preparation fails, the driver incorrectly terminates only the TX channel while leaving the RX channel actively running. This creates a race condition where the SPI core unmaps DMA buffers that the RX DMA engine continues to write into, potentially causing memory corruption, data exfiltration, or denial of service. Any system using the fsl-lpspi driver—particularly embedded Linux systems, IoT devices, and industrial control systems relying on Freescale/NXP SoCs—is affected. The vulnerability requires kernel-level access to exploit but can be weaponized through malicious kernel modules or by attackers with ring 0 privileges.
While Casky.ai has no mapped MITRE ATT&CK techniques for this specific CVE, practitioners using Casky's Claude AI-powered analysis would detect the underlying attack patterns through memory safety and resource cleanup detection skills. This vulnerability patterns with techniques under Resource Hijacking (T1563), Privilege Escalation via kernel exploitation, and Data Destruction (T1485) due to memory corruption risks. Security teams would observe findings related to improper error handling, resource state inconsistencies, and asynchronous operation management failures. Practitioners leveraging Casky's extended reasoning capabilities would identify that the vulnerability stems from incomplete state cleanup in error paths—a critical pattern for kernel security analysis that reveals similar flaws in other driver code, enabling proactive hunting across similar DMA-intensive kernel modules and SPI subsystems.
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