CVE-2026-23188
mediumCVSS v3 Base Score
4.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: r8152: fix resume reset deadlock
rtl8152 can trigger device reset during reset which
potentially can result in a deadlock:
**** DPM device timeout after 10 seconds; 15 seconds until panic ****
Call Trace:
<TASK>
schedule+0x483/0x1370
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
__mutex_lock_common+0x1fd/0x470
__rtl8152_set_mac_address+0x80/0x1f0
dev_set_mac_address+0x7f/0x150
rtl8152_post_reset+0x72/0x150
usb_reset_device+0x1d0/0x220
rtl8152_resume+0x99/0xc0
usb_resume_interface+0x3e/0xc0
usb_resume_both+0x104/0x150
usb_resume+0x22/0x110
The problem is that rtl8152 resume calls reset under
tp->control mutex while reset basically re-enters rtl8152
and attempts to acquire the same tp->control lock once
again.
Reset INACCESSIBLE device outside of tp->control mutex
scope to avoid recursive mutex_lock() deadlock.
CWE
CWE-833Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9