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            "orgId": "f4215fc3-5b6b-47ff-a258-f7189bd81038"
         },
         "descriptions": [
            {
               "lang": "en",
               "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it\n\nThe circular buffer is NULLified in uart_tty_port_shutdown()\nunder the spin lock. However, the PM or other timer based callbacks\nmay still trigger after this event without knowning that buffer pointer\nis not valid. Since the serial code is a bit inconsistent in checking\nthe buffer state (some rely on the head-tail positions, some on the\nbuffer pointer), it's better to have both aligned, i.e. buffer pointer\nto be NULL and head-tail possitions to be the same, meaning it's empty.\nThis will prevent asynchronous calls to dereference NULL pointer as\nreported recently in 8250 case:\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000cf5\n  Workqueue: pm pm_runtime_work\n  EIP: serial8250_tx_chars (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1809)\n  ...\n  ? serial8250_tx_chars (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1809)\n  __start_tx (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1551)\n  serial8250_start_tx (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1654)\n  serial_port_runtime_suspend (include/linux/serial_core.h:667 drivers/tty/serial/serial_port.c:63)\n  __rpm_callback (drivers/base/power/runtime.c:393)\n  ? serial_port_remove (drivers/tty/serial/serial_port.c:50)\n  rpm_suspend (drivers/base/power/runtime.c:447)\n\nThe proposed change will prevent ->start_tx() to be called during\nsuspend on shut down port."
            }
         ],
         "affected": [
            {
               "product": "Linux",
               "vendor": "Linux",
               "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
               "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
               "programFiles": [
                  "drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c"
               ],
               "versions": [
                  {
                     "version": "434beb66368d",
                     "lessThan": "7ae7104d5434",
                     "status": "affected",
                     "versionType": "git"
                  },
                  {
                     "version": "43066e32227e",
                     "lessThan": "bb1118905e87",
                     "status": "affected",
                     "versionType": "git"
                  },
                  {
                     "version": "43066e32227e",
                     "lessThan": "9cf7ea2eeb74",
                     "status": "affected",
                     "versionType": "git"
                  }
               ]
            },
            {
               "product": "Linux",
               "vendor": "Linux",
               "defaultStatus": "affected",
               "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
               "programFiles": [
                  "drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c"
               ],
               "versions": [
                  {
                     "version": "6.8",
                     "status": "affected"
                  },
                  {
                     "version": "0",
                     "lessThan": "6.8",
                     "status": "unaffected",
                     "versionType": "custom"
                  },
                  {
                     "version": "6.6.29",
                     "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
                     "status": "unaffected",
                     "versionType": "custom"
                  },
                  {
                     "version": "6.8.8",
                     "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
                     "status": "unaffected",
                     "versionType": "custom"
                  },
                  {
                     "version": "6.9",
                     "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
                     "status": "unaffected",
                     "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
                  }
               ]
            }
         ],
         "references": [
            {
               "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae7104d54342433a3a73975f6569beefdd86350"
            },
            {
               "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb1118905e875c111d7ccef9aee86ac5e4e7f985"
            },
            {
               "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf7ea2eeb745213dc2a04103e426b960e807940"
            }
         ],
         "title": "serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it",
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         }
      }
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   "cveMetadata": {
      "assignerOrgId": "f4215fc3-5b6b-47ff-a258-f7189bd81038",
      "cveID": "CVE-2024-26998",
      "requesterUserId": "gregkh@kernel.org",
      "serial": "1",
      "state": "PUBLISHED"
   },
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   "dataVersion": "5.0"
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