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HistoryMar 02, 2024 - 10:15 p.m.

Null pointer dereference

2024-03-0222:15:00
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5
linux kernel
vulnerability
serial driver
null pointer dereference
irq polling
8250 hardware
oops
timer interrupt
system wake

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

serial: 8250_port: Check IRQ data before use

In case the leaf driver wants to use IRQ polling (irq = 0) and
IIR register shows that an interrupt happened in the 8250 hardware
the IRQ data can be NULL. In such a case we need to skip the wake
event as we came to this path from the timer interrupt and quite
likely system is already awake.

Without this fix we have got an Oops:

serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
...
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
RIP: 0010:serial8250_handle_irq+0x7c/0x240
Call Trace:
 ? serial8250_handle_irq+0x7c/0x240
 ? __pfx_serial8250_timeout+0x10/0x10

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%