serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it
Résumé
serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it
Description d'origine
La description telle que publiée par la source (souvent en anglais).
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.
Paquets affectés
État des correctifs par distribution
Paquets corrigés publiés par chaque distribution pour cette CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26998 linux Corrigé dans: 6.8.9-1
Références
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org