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LIN1021-7646 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2023-52567

Created: Mar 2, 2024 Updated: Apr 16, 2024

Resolved Date: Apr 16, 2024

Found In Version: 10.21.20.1

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21

Component/s: Kernel

Description

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

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2023-52567 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52567)