{"id":"CVE-2026-10679","aliases":["EUVD-2026-46448","GHSA-3qcm-qwh2-v4hq"],"status":"published","title":"Divide-by-zero in DesignWare SPI driver reachable from spi_transceive syscall (local DoS)","description":"The DesignWare SPI driver (drivers/spi/spi_dw.c) computed the SPI BAUDR clock divider as info-\u003eclock_frequency / config-\u003efrequency without validating config-\u003efrequency.\n\nspi_transceive is a Zephyr __syscall and its verify handler (drivers/spi/spi_handlers.c) copies the caller-supplied spi_config from userspace without checking the frequency field, so a userspace thread that has been granted access to a DesignWare SPI device kernel object can pass frequency = 0 and trigger an unsigned integer divide-by-zero in spi_dw_configure().\n\nOn Cortex-M Mainline (SCB-\u003eCCR.DIV_0_TRP is set in z_arm_fault_init()) and on ARC (a dedicated __ev_div_zero vector) this raises a CPU exception, resulting in a kernel fault and local denial of service.\n\nThe fix rejects zero frequency and frequencies above clock_frequency / 2 (the DesignWare SSI databook minimum SCKDIV of 2) with -EINVAL. The defect affects all Zephyr releases up to and including v4.4.0; exploitation requires CONFIG_USERSPACE=y and an unprivileged thread already granted SPI driver permission. There is no memory-corruption or information-disclosure impact.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"low","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00136,"percentile":0.03051,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-369"],"published":"2026-07-21T21:30:55Z","modified":"2026-11-04T04:58:58Z","products":[{"vendor":"zephyrproject","product":"zephyr"},{"vendor":"zephyrproject-rtos","product":"zephyr"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/65935885622b0e4a5dbe5b82504c30097eb75ce0","tags":["patch","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-3qcm-qwh2-v4hq","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/10xxx/CVE-2026-10679.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10679","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-10679","title":"Divide-by-zero in DesignWare SPI driver reachable from spi_transceive syscall (local DoS)","description":"The DesignWare SPI driver (drivers/spi/spi_dw.c) computed the SPI BAUDR clock divider as info-\u003eclock_frequency / config-\u003efrequency without validating config-\u003efrequency.\n\nspi_transceive is a Zephyr __syscall and its verify handler (drivers/spi/spi_handlers.c) copies the caller-supplied spi_config from userspace without checking the frequency field, so a userspace thread that has been granted access to a DesignWare SPI device kernel object can pass frequency = 0 and trigger an unsigned integer divide-by-zero in spi_dw_configure().\n\nOn Cortex-M Mainline (SCB-\u003eCCR.DIV_0_TRP is set in z_arm_fault_init()) and on ARC (a dedicated __ev_div_zero vector) this raises a CPU exception, resulting in a kernel fault and local denial of service.\n\nThe fix rejects zero frequency and frequencies above clock_frequency / 2 (the DesignWare SSI databook minimum SCKDIV of 2) with -EINVAL. The defect affects all Zephyr releases up to and including v4.4.0; exploitation requires CONFIG_USERSPACE=y and an unprivileged thread already granted SPI driver permission. There is no memory-corruption or information-disclosure impact.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-21T21:30:55.714Z","modified":"2026-11-04T04:58:58.044Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"low","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-369"],"updated_at":"2026-11-04T05:21:48.223566Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-46448","description":"The DesignWare SPI driver (drivers/spi/spi_dw.c) computed the SPI BAUDR clock divider as info-\u003eclock_frequency / config-\u003efrequency without validating config-\u003efrequency.\n\nspi_transceive is a Zephyr __syscall and its verify handler (drivers/spi/spi_handlers.c) copies the caller-supplied spi_config from userspace without checking the frequency field, so a userspace thread that has been granted access to a DesignWare SPI device kernel object can pass frequency = 0 and trigger an unsigned integer divide-by-zero in spi_dw_configure().\n\nOn Cortex-M Mainline (SCB-\u003eCCR.DIV_0_TRP is set in z_arm_fault_init()) and on ARC (a dedicated __ev_div_zero vector) this raises a CPU exception, resulting in a kernel fault and local denial of service.\n\nThe fix rejects zero frequency and frequencies above clock_frequency / 2 (the DesignWare SSI databook minimum SCKDIV of 2) with -EINVAL. The defect affects all Zephyr releases up to and including v4.4.0; exploitation requires CONFIG_USERSPACE=y and an unprivileged thread already granted SPI driver permission. There is no memory-corruption or information-disclosure impact.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-21T21:30:55Z","modified":"2026-11-04T04:58:58Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"low"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-04T07:00:56.720215Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-10679","description":"The DesignWare SPI driver (drivers/spi/spi_dw.c) computed the SPI BAUDR clock divider as info-\u003eclock_frequency / config-\u003efrequency without validating config-\u003efrequency.\n\nspi_transceive is a Zephyr __syscall and its verify handler (drivers/spi/spi_handlers.c) copies the caller-supplied spi_config from userspace without checking the frequency field, so a userspace thread that has been granted access to a DesignWare SPI device kernel object can pass frequency = 0 and trigger an unsigned integer divide-by-zero in spi_dw_configure().\n\nOn Cortex-M Mainline (SCB-\u003eCCR.DIV_0_TRP is set in z_arm_fault_init()) and on ARC (a dedicated __ev_div_zero vector) this raises a CPU exception, resulting in a kernel fault and local denial of service.\n\nThe fix rejects zero frequency and frequencies above clock_frequency / 2 (the DesignWare SSI databook minimum SCKDIV of 2) with -EINVAL. The defect affects all Zephyr releases up to and including v4.4.0; exploitation requires CONFIG_USERSPACE=y and an unprivileged thread already granted SPI driver permission. There is no memory-corruption or information-disclosure impact.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-21T22:17:00.177Z","modified":"2026-10-24T19:10:00.127Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"low","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-369"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:31.394335Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-10679","title":"Divide-by-zero in DesignWare SPI driver reachable from spi_transceive syscall (local DoS)","description":"The DesignWare SPI driver (drivers/spi/spi_dw.c) computed the SPI BAUDR clock divider as info-\u003eclock_frequency / config-\u003efrequency without validating config-\u003efrequency.\n\nspi_transceive is a Zephyr __syscall and its verify handler (drivers/spi/spi_handlers.c) copies the caller-supplied spi_config from userspace without checking the frequency field, so a userspace thread that has been granted access to a DesignWare SPI device kernel object can pass frequency = 0 and trigger an unsigned integer divide-by-zero in spi_dw_configure().\n\nOn Cortex-M Mainline (SCB-\u003eCCR.DIV_0_TRP is set in z_arm_fault_init()) and on ARC (a dedicated __ev_div_zero vector) this raises a CPU exception, resulting in a kernel fault and local denial of service.\n\nThe fix rejects zero frequency and frequencies above clock_frequency / 2 (the DesignWare SSI databook minimum SCKDIV of 2) with -EINVAL. The defect affects all Zephyr releases up to and including v4.4.0; exploitation requires CONFIG_USERSPACE=y and an unprivileged thread already granted SPI driver permission. There is no memory-corruption or information-disclosure impact.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-21T21:30:55.714Z","modified":"2026-11-05T08:04:07.91752208Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"low"}],"cwes":["CWE-369"],"updated_at":"2026-11-05T09:08:14.330889Z"}]}}