CVE-2026-45909 (GCVE-0-2026-45909)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:17 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:28
VLAI
Title
clk: mediatek: Drop __initconst from gates
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: mediatek: Drop __initconst from gates Since commit 8ceff24a754a ("clk: mediatek: clk-gate: Refactor mtk_clk_register_gate to use mtk_gate struct") the mtk_gate structs are no longer just used for initialization/registration, but also at runtime. So drop __initconst annotations.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8ceff24a754ac065123ae0ec9f31ec03aff55f8a , < 1debd9ba7eb18af8fb63dc93517c6bbcab0e31ee (git)
Affected: 8ceff24a754ac065123ae0ec9f31ec03aff55f8a , < 866d8ecc4e789f7d73d6cafd1b122d1b6032b3b1 (git)
Affected: 8ceff24a754ac065123ae0ec9f31ec03aff55f8a , < 871afb43e41ad4e8246438de495a939cd0f8113c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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