CVE-2026-23332

MEDIUM

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix crash during turbo disable

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix crash during turbo disable When the system is booted with kernel command line argument "nosmt" or "maxcpus" to limit the number of CPUs, disabling turbo via: echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo results in a crash: PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ... RIP: 0010:store_no_turbo+0x100/0x1f0 ... This occurs because for_each_possible_cpu() returns CPUs even if they are not online. For those CPUs, all_cpu_data[] will be NULL. Since commit 973207ae3d7c ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange max frequency updates handling code"), all_cpu_data[] is dereferenced even for CPUs which are not online, causing the NULL pointer dereference. To fix that, pass CPU number to intel_pstate_update_max_freq() and use all_cpu_data[] for those CPUs for which there is a valid cpufreq policy.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 3.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.18.17linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.16
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 6.18.17 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.7 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 7.0-rc2
Linux/Linux 973207ae3d7c3c92df4a382df5d7bd695deaa904 - 6b050482ec40569429d963ac52afa878691b04c9
Linux/Linux 973207ae3d7c3c92df4a382df5d7bd695deaa904 - a1850e2aef4d15405e7ff53fd51c4b3124d46182
... and 4 more
Published Mar 25, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 25, 2026