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CVE-2026-90337

serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered serial_core_add_one_port() allocates uport->tty_groups after uart_configure_port(), which may register the console. If the allocation fails, the driver unwinds the port while its console remains registered. The earlier uport->name allocation has a related failure path that leaves state->uart_port linked to a port being freed. Failslab reproduced a NULL dereference in PL011 console output and a KASAN use-after-free in i.MX console output after failed binds. Allocate the name and tty_groups before linking the port and configuring it. Reserve space for the optional driver attribute group because config_port() may populate uport->attr_group during configuration.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f before e2ddbfd826836cba1b7a25ee4eb512f7d752b703; affected 266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f before 8c7c75bfa7b84d6999de2100ce9c09e3779249a0; affected 266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f before 9260a92ce90e6a95ce2ffdf1441c5216bf3f9552; affected 266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f before c2aec15f78b2e6ccd9b94216a901248511355982; affected 266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f before 1a0e4fbce5d9c1bc179a35a2fd9ed142664299e3
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.17; unaffected 0 before 3.17; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.114 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.57 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.6 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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