Linux Kernel up to 6.19.3 clk drivers/clk/clk.c round_rate denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.164/6.6.127/6.12.74/6.18.13/6.19.3. Affected by this vulnerability is the function round_rate of the file drivers/clk/clk.c of the component clk. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-46247. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.164/6.6.127/6.12.74/6.18.13/6.19.3 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function round_rate of the file drivers/clk/clk.c of the component clk. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: qcom: gfx3d: add parent to parent request map After commit d228ece36345 ("clk: divider: remove round_rate() in favor of determine_rate()") determining GFX3D clock rate crashes, because the passed parent map doesn't provide the expected best_parent_hw clock (with the roundd_rate path before the offending commit the best_parent_hw was ignored). Set the field in parent_req in addition to setting it in the req, fixing the crash. clk_hw_round_rate (drivers/clk/clk.c:1764) (P) clk_divider_bestdiv (drivers/clk/clk-divider.c:336) divider_determine_rate (drivers/clk/clk-divider.c:358) clk_alpha_pll_postdiv_determine_rate (drivers/clk/qcom/clk-alpha-pll.c:1275) clk_core_determine_round_nolock (drivers/clk/clk.c:1606) clk_core_round_rate_nolock (drivers/clk/clk.c:1701) __clk_determine_rate (drivers/clk/clk.c:1741) clk_gfx3d_determine_rate (drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c:1268) clk_core_determine_round_nolock (drivers/clk/clk.c:1606) clk_core_round_rate_nolock (drivers/clk/clk.c:1701) clk_core_round_rate_nolock (drivers/clk/clk.c:1710) clk_round_rate (drivers/clk/clk.c:1804) dev_pm_opp_set_rate (drivers/opp/core.c:1440 (discriminator 1)) msm_devfreq_target (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu_devfreq.c:51) devfreq_set_target (drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c:360) devfreq_update_target (drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c:426) devfreq_monitor (drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c:458) process_one_work (arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h:36 include/trace/events/workqueue.h:110 kernel/workqueue.c:3284) worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3356 (discriminator 2) kernel/workqueue.c:3443 (discriminator 2)) kthread (kernel/kthread.c:467) ret_from_fork (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:861)

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-46247 since 05/13/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 6.1.165, 6.6.128, 6.12.75, 6.18.14 or 6.19.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 82cfe5292b11deb1dc33822f67f73cfbe8eafe25/547ae2f17349c7586953af5ef50de43ef3f65e9e/56360aa4ddd736fc19e6d0b0206c5e437e0d6ff8/aed53da569fb96eec09b4817b1953bcc2e467eea/8aa972eba1f29068d13bec716d33abca30fb3f2a/2583cb925ca1ce450aa5d74a05a67448db970193 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.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.1.164
• 6.6.127
• 6.12.0
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• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
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• 6.18.7
• 6.18.8
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• 6.18.10
• 6.18.11
• 6.18.12
• 6.18.13
• 6.19.0
• 6.19.1
• 6.19.2
• 6.19.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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