Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: Introduced a timeout when waiting for the transmitter to become empty By waiting for at most 1 second until the USR2TXDC is set, we avoid a potential deadlock. In the event of a timeout, there’s not much we can do;...

SUSE CVE-2024-40967

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty By waiting at most 1 second for USR2TXDC to be set, we avoid a potential deadlock. In case of the timeout, there is not much we can do, so we simply ignore the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40967

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty By waiting at most 1 second for USR2TXDC to be set, we avoid a potential deadlock. In case of the timeout, there is not much we can do, so we simply ignore the...

CVE-2024-40967

CVE-2024-40967 affects the Linux kernel serial: imx subsystem. The root cause is a potential deadlock while waiting for USR2_TXDC in transmitter empty handling. The patch introduces a timeout of at most 1 second; if the timeout occurs, the driver ignores the transmitter state and continues optimi...