CVE-2025-38262 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.6OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: serial: uartlite: register uart driver in init
When two instances of uart devices are probing, a concurrency race can
occur. If one thread calls uart_register_driver function, which first
allocates and assigns memory to 'uart_state' member of uart_driver
structure, the other instance can bypass uart driver registration and
call ulite_assign. This calls uart_add_one_port, which expects the uart
driver to be fully initializ…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 — 5015eed450005bab6e5cb6810f7a62eab0434fc4+7
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0