Bug 2426177 (CVE-2023-54198)

Summary: CVE-2023-54198 kernel: tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:14:20 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()

When specifying an invalid console= device like console=tty3270,
tty_driver_lookup_tty() returns the tty struct without checking
whether index is a valid number.

To reproduce:

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -nographic -serial mon:stdio \
-kernel ../linux-build-x86/arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
-append "console=ttyS0 console=tty3270"

This crashes with:

[    0.770599] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000ef
[    0.771265] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[    0.771773] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[    0.772609] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[    0.774878] RIP: 0010:tty_open+0x268/0x6f0
[    0.784013]  chrdev_open+0xbd/0x230
[    0.784444]  ? cdev_device_add+0x80/0x80
[    0.784920]  do_dentry_open+0x1e0/0x410
[    0.785389]  path_openat+0xca9/0x1050
[    0.785813]  do_filp_open+0xaa/0x150
[    0.786240]  file_open_name+0x133/0x1b0
[    0.786746]  filp_open+0x27/0x50
[    0.787244]  console_on_rootfs+0x14/0x4d
[    0.787800]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1e4/0x20d
[    0.788383]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.788881]  kernel_init+0x11/0x120
[    0.789356]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-31 03:41:48 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123029-CVE-2023-54198-1df4@gregkh/T