CVE-2026-68356
watchdog: airoha: Prevent division by zero when clock frequency is zero
Published 2 mo ago · modified 2 mo ago · JSON
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watchdog: airoha: Prevent division by zero when clock frequency is zero
clk_get_rate() can return 0 when the clock provider is not properly configured or the clock is unmanaged. The driver uses wdt_freq as a divisor directly in airoha_wdt_probe() to compute max_timeout and in airoha_wdt_get_timeleft() to compute the remaining time, which results in a division by zero.
Add a check for wdt_freq == 0 in probe and return -EINVAL with dev_err_probe() to prevent the division by zero and provide a diagnostic message.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.17% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs.
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
- Linux kernel (RSS, critical only)
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8681e5addf7171602616e256a09057697dcc75ca
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/57c3f5bd5be008cd5b4ff6a45b7cb90f5ca45a37
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/bcfcd7619f277842430d197556463b401b839ee9
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2026-68356
- NVD: CVE-2026-68356
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