Bug 2278303 (CVE-2024-26998) - CVE-2024-26998 kernel: serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it
Summary: CVE-2024-26998 kernel: serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULL...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-26998
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2278304
Blocks: 2278552
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-05-01 19:02 UTC by Zack Miele
Modified: 2024-09-19 19:10 UTC (History)
49 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 6.6.29, kernel 6.8.8, kernel 6.9-rc5
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Description Zack Miele 2024-05-01 19:02:02 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26998 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050145-CVE-2024-26998-2262@gregkh/T
Comment 1 Zack Miele 2024-05-01 19:02:37 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2278304]
Comment 2 Alex 2024-06-09 13:36:52 UTC 
The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2024-26998 is: 	SKIP	The Fixes patch not applied yet, so unlikely that actual: 43066e32227ecde674e8ae1fcdd4a1ede67680c2	YES			NO	NO	unknown (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).
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