Vulnerability · Published Jul 12, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-40965i2c: lpi2c: Avoid calling clk_get_rate during transfer

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: lpi2c: Avoid calling clk_get_rate during transfer Instead of repeatedly calling clk_get_rate for each transfer, lock the clock rate and cache the value. A deadlock has been observed while adding tlv320aic32x4 audio codec to the system. When this clock provider adds its clock, the clk mutex is locked already, it needs to access i2c, which in return needs the mutex for clk_get_rate as well.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linuxno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-40965
Debian:13linux6.9.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40965
Debian:14linux6.9.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-133.144UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-133.144USN-7288-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-44.44UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1078.85UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1078.85USN-7308-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1015.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1015.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1081.90UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1081.90USN-7289-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1014.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1014.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1081.90.1USN-7289-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1081.90.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1077.86USN-7291-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1077.86UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1014.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1014.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1075.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1075.81USN-7291-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1010.13UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1060.68UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1060.68USN-7289-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-45.45~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1070.73UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1070.73USN-7289-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1012.12~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1073.79USN-7289-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1073.79UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1076.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1076.81USN-7388-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-133.143USN-7288-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-133.143UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-44.44.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-44.44.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1072.73UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1072.73USN-7289-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1013.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1013.14.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1033.33UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1033.33USN-7389-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1021.21USN-7389-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1021.21UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1075.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1075.81USN-7289-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1012.12~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1072.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1072.75USN-7305-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1011.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-44.44.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-44.44.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1044.48USN-7390-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1044.48UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40965

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux a55fa9d0e42e31b0292540e6324d481aad307644 – before d038693e08adf9c162c6377800495e4f5a2df045a55fa9d0e42e31b0292540e6324d481aad307644 – before 2b42e9587a7a9c7b824e0feb92958f258263963ea55fa9d0e42e31b0292540e6324d481aad307644 – before 4268254a39484fc11ba991ae148bacbe75d9cc0a
Linux Linux 4.10

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