Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 riic suspend_late state issue

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects the function suspend_late of the component riic. This manipulation causes state issue. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-23055. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function suspend_late of the component riic. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a state issue vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-371. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: riic: Move suspend handling to NOIRQ phase Commit 53326135d0e0 ("i2c: riic: Add suspend/resume support") added suspend support for the Renesas I2C driver and following this change on RZ/G3E the following WARNING is seen on entering suspend ... [ 134.275704] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds) [ 134.285536] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 134.290298] i2c i2c-2: Transfer while suspended [ 134.295174] WARNING: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.h:56 at __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214, CPU#0: systemd-sleep/388 [ 134.365507] Tainted: [W]=WARN [ 134.368485] Hardware name: Renesas SMARC EVK version 2 based on r9a09g047e57 (DT) [ 134.375961] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 134.382935] pc : __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214 [ 134.387329] lr : __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214 [ 134.391717] sp : ffff800083f23860 [ 134.395040] x29: ffff800083f23860 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800082ed5d60 [ 134.402226] x26: 0000001f4395fd74 x25: 0000000000000007 x24: 0000000000000001 [ 134.409408] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 000000000000006f x21: ffff800083f23936 [ 134.416589] x20: ffff0000c090e140 x19: ffff0000c090e0d0 x18: 0000000000000006 [ 134.423771] x17: 6f63657320313030 x16: 2e30206465737061 x15: ffff800083f23280 [ 134.430953] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffff800082b16ce8 x12: 0000000000000f09 [ 134.438134] x11: 0000000000000503 x10: ffff800082b6ece8 x9 : ffff800082b16ce8 [ 134.445315] x8 : 00000000ffffefff x7 : ffff800082b6ece8 x6 : 80000000fffff000 [ 134.452495] x5 : 0000000000000504 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 134.459672] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0000c9ee9e80 [ 134.466851] Call trace: [ 134.469311] __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214 (P) [ 134.473715] i2c_smbus_xfer+0xbc/0x120 [ 134.477507] i2c_smbus_read_byte_data+0x4c/0x84 [ 134.482077] isl1208_i2c_read_time+0x44/0x178 [rtc_isl1208] [ 134.487703] isl1208_rtc_read_time+0x14/0x20 [rtc_isl1208] [ 134.493226] __rtc_read_time+0x44/0x88 [ 134.497012] rtc_read_time+0x3c/0x68 [ 134.500622] rtc_suspend+0x9c/0x170 The warning is triggered because I2C transfers can still be attempted while the controller is already suspended, due to inappropriate ordering of the system sleep callbacks. If the controller is autosuspended, there is no way to wake it up once runtime PM disabled (in suspend_late()). During system resume, the I2C controller will be available only after runtime PM is re-enabled (in resume_early()). However, this may be too late for some devices. Wake up the controller in the suspend() callback while runtime PM is still enabled. The I2C controller will remain available until the suspend_noirq() callback (pm_runtime_force_suspend()) is called. During resume, the I2C controller can be restored by the resume_noirq() callback (pm_runtime_force_resume()). Finally, the resume() callback re-enables autosuspend. As a result, the I2C controller can remain available until the system enters suspend_noirq() and from resume_noirq().

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-23055 since 01/13/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/30/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 297943 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-23055), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.12.67, 6.18.7 or 6.19-rc6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 469f8fe4c87e43520f279e45b927c35d6fe99194/0b4c0fbbe00b7de76bdaea7fa771017d7a979b0d/e383f0961422f983451ac4dd6aed1a3d3311f2be is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (297943) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-0324). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Google Cloud Platform
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
• 6.12.6
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• 6.12.64
• 6.12.65
• 6.12.66
• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
• 6.18.2
• 6.18.3
• 6.18.4
• 6.18.5
• 6.18.6
• 6.19-rc1
• 6.19-rc2
• 6.19-rc3
• 6.19-rc4
• 6.19-rc5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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