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.
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History
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:15:00 +0000
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Weaknesses | CWE-476 | |
CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Vendors & Products |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:15:00 +0000
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-01T05:28:25.905Z
Updated: 2024-12-19T08:52:12.468Z
Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.206Z
Link: CVE-2024-26998
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-02T00:21:05.918Z
NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-05-01T06:15:17.780
Modified: 2024-12-23T19:50:05.873
Link: CVE-2024-26998
Redhat