Bug 2516279 (CVE-2026-72238) - CVE-2026-72238 kernel: x86/boot: Validate console=uart8250 baud rate to fix early boot hang
Summary: CVE-2026-72238 kernel: x86/boot: Validate console=uart8250 baud rate to fix e...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72238
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-03 14:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:04:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/boot: Validate console=uart8250 baud rate to fix early boot hang

When the baud rate is empty, 0, invalid, or overflows to 0 when stored
as an int, the system will hang during early boot because of a division
by zero in early_serial_init().

Fall back to DEFAULT_BAUD when the resulting baud rate is 0 to prevent
an early system hang.


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