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FKIE_CVE-2025-38262

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-09 11:15 - Updated: 2026-07-30 06:23

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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 initialized. This leads to a kernel panic due to a null pointer dereference: [ 8.143581] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002b8 [ 8.156982] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 8.156984] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ 8.156986] PGD 0 P4D 0 ... [ 8.180668] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x19/0x30 [ 8.188624] Call Trace: [ 8.188629] ? __die_body.cold+0x1a/0x1f [ 8.195260] ? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x290 [ 8.209183] ? __irq_resolve_mapping+0x47/0x80 [ 8.209187] ? exc_page_fault+0x64/0x140 [ 8.209190] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 [ 8.209196] ? mutex_lock+0x19/0x30 [ 8.223116] uart_add_one_port+0x60/0x440 [ 8.223122] ? proc_tty_register_driver+0x43/0x50 [ 8.223126] ? tty_register_driver+0x1ca/0x1e0 [ 8.246250] ulite_probe+0x357/0x4b0 [uartlite] To prevent it, move uart driver registration in to init function. This will ensure that uart_driver is always registered when probe function is called.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5015eed450005bab6e5cb6810f7a62eab0434fc4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685d29f2c5057b32c7b1b46f2a7d303b926c8f72	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bd697b5fc39fd24e2aa418c7b7d14469f550a93	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db06aaea07bb7c8e33a425cf7b98bf29ee6056e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e958d10dd0ce5ae674cce460db5c9ca3f25243b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c905fdbba68a6d73d39a6b7de9b9f0d6c46df87	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5e4229d94792b40e750f30c92bcf7a3107c72ef	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-38262 (GCVE-0-2025-38262)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-09 10:42 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:00

Title

tty: serial: uartlite: register uart driver in init

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5015eed450005bab6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c905fdbba68a6d73…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db06aaea07bb7c8e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e958d10dd0ce5ae6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685d29f2c5057b32c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5e4229d94792b40e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bd697b5fc39fd24e…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < 5015eed450005bab6e5cb6810f7a62eab0434fc4 (git) Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < 9c905fdbba68a6d73d39a6b7de9b9f0d6c46df87 (git) Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < 6db06aaea07bb7c8e33a425cf7b98bf29ee6056e (git) Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < 8e958d10dd0ce5ae674cce460db5c9ca3f25243b (git) Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < 685d29f2c5057b32c7b1b46f2a7d303b926c8f72 (git) Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < f5e4229d94792b40e750f30c92bcf7a3107c72ef (git) Affected: 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927 , < 6bd697b5fc39fd24e2aa418c7b7d14469f550a93 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.20 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.20 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.296 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.187 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.143 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.96 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.36 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.5 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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