# CVE-2026-23202: spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer

> A race condition in the Tegra210 QSPI driver allows an attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference or use-after-free, causing a system crash.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 14 Feb 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2026-23202, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23202, GHSA-g2fg-h3fh-wpj6, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-23202, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-23202, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-23202, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23202

## What is CVE-2026-23202?

CVE-2026-23202 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer

The curr_xfer field is read by the IRQ handler without holding the lock
to check if a transfer is in progress. When clearing curr_xfer in the
combined sequence transfer loop, protect it with the spinlock to prevent
a race with the interrupt handler.

Protect the curr_xfer clearing at the exit path of
tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer() with the spinlock to prevent a race
with the interrupt handler that reads this field.

Without this protection, the IRQ handler could read a partially updated
curr_xfer value, leading to NULL pointer dereference or use-after-free.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference), CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-23202?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-23202?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2026-23202 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23202 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23202 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-23202 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23202 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23202/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23202/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23202
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23202
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23202

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23202/
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