5.5

CVE-2026-64168: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-64168DEBIAN-CVE-2026-64168
Published 19-07-2026Last modified 19-07-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-64168 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.11%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 43 · Related 43
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21910-1SUSE-SU-2026:23477-1SUSE-SU-2026:23481-1SUSE-SU-2026:23528-1SUSE-SU-2026:23529-1SUSE-SU-2026:23881-1

Timeline

  1. 19-07-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: sprd: fix error pointer deref after DMA setup failure The driver falls back to PIO mode if DMA setup fails during probe. Make sure to check the dma.enabled flag before trying to release the DMA channels also on late probe errors to avoid dereferencing an error pointer (or attempting to release a channel a second time). This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a devres allocation conversion patch.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.11%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

1%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.11% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.11%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu163 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-186.196 | < 6.8.0-139.139 | < 7.0.0-28.28
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1112.119 | < 6.8.0-1064.67 | < 7.0.0-1009.9
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < be74e276111f3c23b8e040c8c5e308f67a573add | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < a8f233fb0c7be29b97cd249f64120bf35ce72805 | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < 0cdea166c1a07c200caf9d0b722224fca43b23ae | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < 450c319dd04d0eeff4184889768f7ada826a2e35 | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < b6f1acf4e57ccf708cdc0cb70f5bb5b65162963b | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < be409d2bbe9ca7da7b05cc7dde7499bc481f0766 | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < c33b4496e95d04722055446c0a31213639438536 | ≥ 386119bc7be9fa5114ced0274a22a943df890b4b, < 3d67fffb74267772d461c02c67f1eff893ad547d | 5.1
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.1, < 5.10.258 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.209 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.175 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.142 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.92 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.34 | ≥ 6.19, < 7.0.11 | 7.1:rc1 | 7.1:rc2 | 7.1:rc3 | 7.1:rc4
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.176-1 | < 6.12.94-1 | < 7.0.12-1

3 vendors · 166 products

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