CVE-2025-38262

Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.5)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: serial: uartlite: register uart driver in init

When two instances of uart devices are probing, a concurrency race can occur. If one thread calls uart_register_driver function, which first allocates and assigns memory to 'uart_state' member of uart_driver structure, the other instance can bypass uart driver registration and call ulite_assign. This calls uart_add_one_port, which expects the uart driver to be fully initialized. This leads to a kernel panic due to a null pointer dereference:

To prevent it, move uart driver registration in to init function. This will ensure that uart_driver is always registered when probe function is called.

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[    8.143581] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002b8
[    8.156982] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[    8.156984] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[    8.156986] PGD 0 P4D 0
...
[    8.180668] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x19/0x30
[    8.188624] Call Trace:
[    8.188629]  ? __die_body.cold+0x1a/0x1f
[    8.195260]  ? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x290
[    8.209183]  ? __irq_resolve_mapping+0x47/0x80
[    8.209187]  ? exc_page_fault+0x64/0x140
[    8.209190]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[    8.209196]  ? mutex_lock+0x19/0x30
[    8.223116]  uart_add_one_port+0x60/0x440
[    8.223122]  ? proc_tty_register_driver+0x43/0x50
[    8.223126]  ? tty_register_driver+0x1ca/0x1e0
[    8.246250]  ulite_probe+0x357/0x4b0 [uartlite]

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Puntuación base: 5.5

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.17%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 6
Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

Tecnologías afectadas (2)

Debian — Debian Linux Linux — Linux Kernel

CWE

CWE-476

Referencias

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