CVE-2026-90336: vulnerability in Linux
serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure
Published
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 91% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure
uart_register_driver() leaves drv->state pointing to freed memory when
tty_alloc_driver() fails. If tty_register_driver() fails, drv->tty_driver
also retains a pointer after its reference is dropped.
Drivers that use drv->state as an "already registered" flag can then skip
registration on the next probe and pass the freed state to
uart_add_one_port().
This issue was found with failslab on QEMU's raspi1ap board by
failing registration and binding the PL011 port again.
Clear both pointers on their failure paths, as uart_unregister_driver()
already does.
Affected products
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