CVE-2024-40967

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Serial Transmitter Deadlock

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty By waiting at most 1 second for USR2_TXDC to be set, we avoid a potential deadlock. In case of the timeout, there is not much we can do, so we simply ignore the transmitter state and optimistically try to continue.

References (6)

Core 6

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 3.6.0 - 5.15.162linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.96linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.36linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.9.7linux
Linux/Linux < 3.6
Linux/Linux 3.2.30 - 3.3
Linux/Linux 3.4.12 - 3.5
Linux/Linux 3.5.5 - 3.6
Linux/Linux 3.6
Linux/Linux 34d4dda865d8174f4a437f313c457c42a8fa9535
... and 13 more
Published Jul 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026