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.
References
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History
23 Dec 2024, 19:50
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae7104d54342433a3a73975f6569beefdd86350 - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf7ea2eeb745213dc2a04103e426b960e807940 - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb1118905e875c111d7ccef9aee86ac5e4e7f985 - Patch | |
CWE | CWE-476 | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
Information
Published : 2024-05-01 06:15
Updated : 2024-12-23 19:50
NVD link : CVE-2024-26998
Mitre link : CVE-2024-26998
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-26998
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference