NFC: nxp-nci: allow GPIOs to sleep

published 2026-04-24 6 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-25438

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

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

Allow the firmware and enable GPIOs to sleep.

This fixes a `WARN_ON' and allows the driver to operate GPIOs which are connected to I2C GPIO expanders.

-- >8 -- kernel: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2636 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3880 gpiod_set_value+0x88/0x98 -- >8 --

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4 links 8

Linux Linux 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.20, 6.19.10, 7.0

debian ubuntu suse opensuse

linux Debian 12 6.1.170-1
linux Debian 13 6.12.85-1
linux Debian 14 6.19.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31545

linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-186.196
linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-136.136
linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1112.119
linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1061.64
linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1112.122
linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1064.72
linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1108.114
linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1059.67

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31545

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23244-1 SUSE-SU-2026:23241-1 SUSE-SU-2026:23194-1 SUSE-SU-2026:23193-1 SUSE-SU-2026:23237-1 SUSE-SU-2026:23068-1

kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21555-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-31545 updated 2026-11-07

kernel: NFC: nxp-nci: allow GPIOs to sleep

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-31545
NVD CVE-2026-31545

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Summary