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DMA Buffer Size in the i.MX SPI Driver: Is Your Kernel Affected by CVE-2026-99164?
CVE-2026-99164: a DMA buffer size mismatch in the i.MX SPI driver. What the bug is, how the fix works, which kernels have…
RB Nov 13 · 11 min
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