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CVE-2024-26998
published 2024-05-01

CVE-2024-26998: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it The circular buffer is…

PriorityP421medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.23%
13.7th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it The circular buffer is NULLified in uart_tty_port_shutdown() under the spin lock. However, the PM or other timer based callbacks may still trigger after this event without knowning that buffer pointer is not valid. Since the serial code is a bit inconsistent in checking the buffer state (some rely on the head-tail positions, some on the buffer pointer), it's better to have both aligned, i.e. buffer pointer to be NULL and head-tail possitions to be the same, meaning it's empty. This will prevent asynchronous calls to dereference NULL pointer as reported recently in 8250 case: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000cf5 Workqueue: pm pm_runtime_work EIP: serial8250_tx_chars (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1809) ... ? serial8250_tx_chars (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1809) __start_tx (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1551) serial8250_start_tx (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1654) serial_port_runtime_suspend (include/linux/serial_core.h:667 drivers/tty/serial/serial_port.c:63) __rpm_callback (drivers/base/power/runtime.c:393) ? serial_port_remove (drivers/tty/serial/serial_port.c:50) rpm_suspend (drivers/base/power/runtime.c:447) The proposed change will prevent ->start_tx() to be called during suspend on shut down port.

Affected

15 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.8.9-1 (forky)linux 6.8.9-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 43066e32227ecde674e8ae1fcdd4a1ede67680c2 < bb1118905e875c111d7ccef9aee86ac5e4e7f985bb1118905e875c111d7ccef9aee86ac5e4e7f985
linuxlinux>= 43066e32227ecde674e8ae1fcdd4a1ede67680c2 < 9cf7ea2eeb745213dc2a04103e426b960e8079409cf7ea2eeb745213dc2a04103e426b960e807940
linuxlinux>= 434beb66368d4fb4d3119c2116b9398500adbf47 < 7ae7104d54342433a3a73975f6569beefdd863507ae7104d54342433a3a73975f6569beefdd86350
linuxlinux>= 6.6.24 < 6.6.296.6.29
linuxlinux>= 6.7.12 < 6.86.8
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.9-16.8.9-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.9-16.8.9-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-38.386.8.0-38.38
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.6.24 < 6.6.296.6.29
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7.12 < 6.86.8
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.8 < 6.8.86.8.8

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv6.8MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu4.6MEDIUM
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