CVE-2026-97481: vulnerability in Linux
serial: 8250: fix possible ISR soft lockup
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: 8250: fix possible ISR soft lockup
There are rare cases in which the host gets stuck in the ISR because it
is flooded with messages during the startup phase.
The reason for the soft lockup in the ISR is the missing FIFO error IRQ
(FIFOE) handling. Not handling it and reporting IRQ_HANDLED triggers
the IRQ immediately again.
Fix this by adding a check for the FIFOE status and clearing the FIFO
if no data is ready (DR).
This behavior was observed on an AM62L device which uses the OMAP 8250
driver. Fix it for all 8250 drivers, since the OMAP driver's special
IRQ setup handling may trigger this behavior more frequently, but it
is not ensured that other 8250 drivers aren't affected.
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03ed804a0ddc3d069faf94c47f9e702afe5ca084https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c6bf45e5a345cc3b9ffbeaf9083ecac3c2293ebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2881b2e6da02daea1eb8254247ba8fd20c9d3348https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4295c58990b7a84e8349a2226db692e252825b60https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bce4a6f6318035d77d6b6199527b1950bb015f4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b67af8cd90542b2607623e3282811849e191b79https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95d0b40c0623fd2b58c753f8dd6adda7263e3cd1