Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 26, 2026· Updated Jul 8, 2026
CVE-2026-53279
CVE-2026-53279
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds: fix hang on init failure
The LVDS init code looks up an I2C adapter using i2c_get_adapter() and tries to read the EDID before falling back to allocating and registering its own adapter.
The error handling does not separate these cases so on a late init failure it will try to deregister and free also an adapter that had previously been registered. Since i2c_get_adapter() takes another reference to the adapter, deregistration hangs indefinitely while waiting for the reference to be released.
Fix this by only destroying adapters allocated during LVDS init on errors.
Affected products
7Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e04b564c005c9900643c56656d751ad677889benvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fe9f505d8578852c30668567bc3ce52e776e8c7nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/657a091ab6d01d0091b77660c75cfed573c9a53envdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7877f7e231a8bd5c817af1491276550a5e195cd7nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab9256936b58eb178caddcf5b5b1638f079909d2nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6fc44af3bbd5ab0fb6bdec6f47decca11b38425nvdPatch
News mentions
1- Linux Kernel: Batch of 11 Vulnerabilities Affecting Networking, Graphics, and Crypto ResolvedVypr Intelligence · Jun 27, 2026