Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-49173

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: fsi: Implement a timeout for polling status

The data transfer routines must poll the status register to determine when more data can be shifted in or out. If the hardware gets into a bad state, these polling loops may never exit. Prevent this by returning an error if a timeout is exceeded.

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Affected products

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- (no CPE)range: 5.7
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pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 5.7.0, < 5.16.19

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/89b35e3f28514087d3f1e28e8f5634fbfd07c554nvdPatch
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4982ceb137e6ecd2b466a6de639790a148cf19anvdPatch
git.kernel.org/stable/c/dac1438f347d3b8cf892105c94e254f29c5764denvdPatch

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