CVE-2026-46192

MEDIUM

spi: microchip-core-qspi: don't attempt to transmit during emulated read-only dual/quad operations

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: microchip-core-qspi: don't attempt to transmit during emulated read-only dual/quad operations The core will deal with reads by creating clock cycles itself, there's no need to generate clock cycles by transmitting garbage data at the driver level. Further, transmitting garbage data just bricks the transfer since QSPI doesn't have a dedicated master-out line like MOSI in regular SPI. I'm not entirely sure if the transfer is bricked because of the garbage data being transmitted on the bus or because the core loses track of whether it is supposed to be sending or receiving data.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 6.17.0 - 6.18.30linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.18.30 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 7.0.7 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1
Linux/Linux 7.1-rc3
Linux/Linux 8f9cf02c8852837923f1cdacfcc92e138513325c - 67184f361ab4d9fac6d2b8d5fed6649d496038a4
Linux/Linux 8f9cf02c8852837923f1cdacfcc92e138513325c - eb56deaabf127e8985fc91fa6c97bf8a3b062844
... and 3 more
Published May 28, 2026
Tracked Since May 28, 2026