CVE-2024-40967

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

12/07/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		5.15.162 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.96 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.36 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.9.7 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-40967

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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