# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72142"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:15.489Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:51.665Z"
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-2026-72142"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72142.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72142"
title: "i2c: imx: fix locked bus on SMBus block-read of 0 (atomic)"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: imx: fix locked bus on SMBus block-read of 0 (atomic)\n\nSMBus 3.1 6.5.7 allows a Block Read byte count of 0, but the atomic\n(polling) path rejects it as -EPROTO. Worse, it returns without a\nNACK+STOP: the next receive cycle has already started, so the target\nkeeps holding SDA and the bus stays stuck until a power cycle for\nthis i2c controller.\n\nReading I2DR to obtain the count likewise arms the next byte on the\ncount \u003e I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX path, which also returned -EPROTO directly\nand left the bus held.\n\nHandle both: NACK the in-flight dummy byte (TXAK) and extend msgs-\u003elen so\nthe existing last-byte handling emits STOP; the dummy byte is discarded.\nA count of 0 is a valid empty block read; a count above\nI2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX is still reported as -EPROTO, but only after the bus\nhas been released.\n\nThe interrupt-driven path has the same flaw from a later commit and is\nfixed separately, as it carries a different Fixes: tag and stable range."
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