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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64602" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-06T07:13:54.519Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:58:25.306Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64602" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64602.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64602" title: "iio: adc: spear: Initialize completion before requesting IRQ" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: adc: spear: Initialize completion before requesting IRQ\n\nIn the report from Jaeyoung Chung:\n\n\"spear_adc_probe() in drivers/iio/adc/spear_adc.c registers its\ninterrupt handler with devm_request_irq() before it initializes\nst-\u003ecompletion with init_completion(). If an interrupt arrives after\ndevm_request_irq() and before init_completion(), the handler calls\ncomplete() on an uninitialized completion, causing a kernel panic.\n\nThe probe path, in spear_adc_probe():\n\n iodev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&pdev-\u003edev, sizeof(*st)); /* st kzalloc-zeroed */\n ...\n retval = devm_request_irq(&pdev-\u003edev, irq, spear_adc_isr, 0,\n LPC32XXAD_NAME, st); /* register handler */\n ...\n init_completion(&st-\u003ecompletion); /* initialize completion */\n\nspear_adc_isr() calls complete():\n\n complete(&st-\u003ecompletion);\n\nIf the device raises an interrupt before init_completion() runs,\ncomplete() acquires the uninitialized wait.lock and walks the zeroed\ntask_list in swake_up_locked(). The zeroed task_list makes list_empty()\nreturn false, so swake_up_locked() dereferences a NULL list entry,\ntriggering a KASAN wild-memory-access.\"\n\nFix the chance of a spurious IRQ causing an uninitialized pointer\ndereference by moving init_completion() above devm_request_irq()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aea8ae6c4d3ed58d9223360f758df6bd8b90c608"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67a49ab41320b3f721ce4be7447754ff040acbd5"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a50757398794aaa25f908b96c6733e045466cba4"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3f90bc7b38ba3ff14f131cea0f8eb77624787a8"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37077d8271b1f24894fbc21bca1c4cd337525d31"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbfebae473ac2c8a194523b29ccb9b45f02f134c"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb5b07c9d0ec1a9d4b6871b14793c19967d79dc4"},{"version":"b586e5d9eee038b8ee6f846cdb6cf2fcbcb2f4ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ee2128b6f0eb0be7b6cb8f6e0f1f113a65201a0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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