Bug 2555145 (CVE-2026-98748) - CVE-2026-98748 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via use-after-free in Broadcom serial driver
Summary: CVE-2026-98748 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via use-after-free in Broadc...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98748
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:56 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 06:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:56:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

serial: 8250_bcm7271: fix use-after-free in brcmuart_remove()

brcmuart_handle_irq() starts priv->hrt to work around a receive-timeout
quirk of the 8250 core when hardware flow control is enabled; the timer
callback brcmuart_hrtimer_func() dereferences priv.

brcmuart_remove() cancels the hrtimer before it unregisters the port, so
a receive-timeout interrupt that arrives in between re-arms the timer.
After devm frees priv, the callback runs on freed memory.

Unregister the port before cancelling the hrtimer.
serial8250_unregister_port() shuts the port down and frees its IRQ, so
brcmuart_handle_irq() can no longer restart the timer, and the final
hrtimer_cancel() drains any timer that was armed before or during the
unregister.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.


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