CVE-2026-93170: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix channel idle state management in AXIDMA and MCDMA interrupt handlers
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix channel idle state management in AXIDMA and MCDMA interrupt handlers
Fix a race condition in AXIDMA and MCDMA irq handlers where the channel
could be incorrectly marked as idle and attempt spurious transfers when
descriptors are still being processed.
The issue occurs when:
1. Multiple descriptors are queued and active.
2. An interrupt fires after completing some descriptors.
3. xilinx_dma_complete_descriptor() moves completed descriptors to
done_list.
4. Channel is marked idle and start_transfer() is called even though
active_list still contains unprocessed descriptors.
5. This leads to premature transfer attempts and potential descriptor
corruption or missed completions.
Only mark the channel as idle and start new transfers when the active list
is actually empty, ensuring proper channel state management and avoiding
spurious transfer attempts.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxRelated CVEs — Linux
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-53197HIGHALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devicesEPSS 4.1%KEVCVE-2026-31431HIGHcrypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-placeEPSS 3.4%KEVCVE-2024-53104HIGHmedia: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_formatEPSS 3.4%KEVCVE-2025-39682CRITICALtls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_listEPSS 2.9%KEVCVE-2024-36971HIGHnet: fix __dst_negative_advice() raceEPSS 2.7%KEVCVE-2024-53150HIGHALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sourcesEPSS 1.4%KEV
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b6d055edb55ecadadf54e930c2b4fab76fa9a5ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/425630e9eea1f9f8912b8c6abf01e0dab1e27917https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5459e02707b27a964ae72e028d3ff72a3b687c4ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f4b989d7d87381927b98d64492f8dcf979f57abhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c27d16fd2358b2fc3e1ffaca03afd11dc28630eahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3e943490ced0b9ad475844eda7661f6a9bcfb4ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec927657524be4438447944a58173c7baf7f2384https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdaf297ab275c6efecac5e87669c31bc89b74297