serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-53384
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.52 % · percentile 44 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails dw8250_probe() registers the 8250 port via serial8250_register_8250_port() and then, if the device has a clock, registers a clock notifier. If clk_notifier_register() fails, probe returns the error but leaves the 8250 port registered. The matching serial8250_unregister_port() lives in dw8250_remove(), which is not called when probe fails, so the port slot stays occupied until the device is rebound or the system is rebooted. The devm-allocated driver data is freed while the port still references it (via the saved private_data and serial_in/serial_out callbacks), so any access to that port slot before a rebind is a use-after-free hazard. Unregister the port on the clk_notifier_register() error path.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 57f83e5dd6a33c4696699954784f8fee789b1d0c < ccdf4510a3873b14e5e348cdb038717996f09fda ; affected 57f83e5dd6a33c4696699954784f8fee789b1d0c < 511d2b92f8d20de04acafab676150d26fb5c67f4 ; affected 57f83e5dd6a33c4696699954784f8fee789b1d0c < 07ffe414a708ae60551401cec5d727ed156b8caf ; affected 57f83e5dd6a33c4696699954784f8fee789b1d0c < 3d205fe80f2181f0109150ad1fa06ee5bc046935 ; affected 57f83e5dd6a33c4696699954784f8fee789b1d0c < d72650a4f334581b23a1892b888a4cb1be142f76 ; affected 57f83e5dd6a33c4696699954784f8fee789b1d0c < 778b9dda4b24005a27bcd9c35c110bf8d7f259ca
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.19 ; unaffected 0 < 5.19 ; unaffected 6.1.177 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.144 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.95 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.38 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD