CVE-2026-74461

Name	CVE-2026-74461
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: imx: Cancel hrtimer before clearing slave pointer In i2c_imx_unreg_slave(), the slave pointer is set to NULL after disabling interrupts. However, a pending interrupt might already have started the hrtimer (i2c_imx_slave_timeout) before the pointer was cleared. If the hrtimer fires after i2c_imx->slave is set to NULL, the timer callback i2c_imx_slave_finish_op() will call i2c_imx_slave_event() with a NULL slave pointer, which results in a use-after-free / NULL pointer dereference. Fix by canceling the hrtimer and waiting for it to complete after disabling interrupts, before clearing the slave pointer.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.262-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.180-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.94-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.101-1	vulnerable
	forky	7.1.7-1	vulnerable
	sid	7.1.8-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	7.1.8-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/6ac7702b6cc2b94aaed9ef2d95bfbefcdc90061f (7.2-rc6)