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CVE-2025-38262

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.

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VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 5015eed450005bab6e5cb6810f7a62eab0434fc4
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
Version < 9c905fdbba68a6d73d39a6b7de9b9f0d6c46df87
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
Version < 6db06aaea07bb7c8e33a425cf7b98bf29ee6056e
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
Version < 8e958d10dd0ce5ae674cce460db5c9ca3f25243b
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
Version < 685d29f2c5057b32c7b1b46f2a7d303b926c8f72
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
Version < f5e4229d94792b40e750f30c92bcf7a3107c72ef
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
Version < 6bd697b5fc39fd24e2aa418c7b7d14469f550a93
Version 238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927
Status affected
VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.6.20
Status affected
Version < 2.6.20
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.4.*
Version 5.4.296
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.187
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.143
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.96
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.36
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.15.*
Version 6.15.5
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.16
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
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Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.097
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