CVE-2026-74653 (GCVE-0-2026-74653)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-27 12:39
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Title
serial: 8250_of: clear stuck empty-FIFO RX-timeout on LPC32xx
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_of: clear stuck empty-FIFO RX-timeout on LPC32xx The NXP LPC32xx UART (PORT_LPC3220) can latch an RX character-timeout interrupt while the RX FIFO is empty: IIR reports UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT (0x0c) but LSR.DR is clear. A character timeout is only cleared by reading RHR, but serial8250_rx_chars() reads RHR only when LSR.DR is set, so nothing ever clears the condition. The interrupt is level-triggered and re-fires immediately, so on a single-core ARM926 the resulting interrupt storm livelocks the CPU. It is reproducible when userspace repeatedly opens the front-panel port (ttyS1): serial8250_do_set_termios() re-enables interrupts on unlock and the handler then spins forever with iir=0xcc lsr=0x60 ier=0x05, tripping the soft-lockup detector in serial8250_handle_irq_locked(). LPC32xx has no dedicated 8250 glue driver, it's driven by the generic 8250_of. Add a hardware specific handle_irq for PORT_LPC3220, wired up in of_platform_serial_setup() the same way fsl8250_handle_irq is installed. The handler follows dw8250_handle_irq(): on an RX timeout with an empty FIFO (LSR.DR and LSR.BI clear) it does one throwaway RHR read to clear the condition, then calls serial8250_handle_irq_locked(). No real received data is ever discarded, and it is a no-op on healthy UARTs which never report a timeout with DR clear. This is the same class of bug already worked around in other 8250 drivers; see commit 424d79183af0 ("serial: 8250_dw: Avoid "too much work" from bogus rx timeout interrupt") which reports the identical iir=0xcc/lsr=0x60. See also UART_RX_TIMEOUT_QUIRK in 8250_omap, and the note in 8250_bcm7271.
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Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6666 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e6e912c4964ce5976e508881207dfa96d5f856d7 , < c321dc5172c8c66e21ffbeeb7a2ebb88ae6fd4c3 (git)
Affected: e6e912c4964ce5976e508881207dfa96d5f856d7 , < 3ce24bc4d115336218e59b7e286fd3a79f4fc4c6 (git)
Affected: e6e912c4964ce5976e508881207dfa96d5f856d7 , < 7795e8abedc86438cae0454602cbf9038b94bf38 (git)
Affected: e6e912c4964ce5976e508881207dfa96d5f856d7 , < 1423415471274abda87024967d7fe2206ceee0ea (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.36
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.36 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.106 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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