Vulnerability CVE-2024-27000
Published: 2024-05-01

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

serial: mxs-auart: add spinlock around changing cts state

The uart_handle_cts_change() function in serial_core expects the caller
to hold uport->lock. For example, I have seen the below kernel splat,
when the Bluetooth driver is loaded on an i.MX28 board.

[ 85.119255] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 85.124413] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27 at /drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:3453 uart_handle_cts_change+0xb4/0xec
[ 85.134694] Modules linked in: hci_uart bluetooth ecdh_generic ecc wlcore_sdio configfs
[ 85.143314] CPU: 0 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u3:0 Not tainted 6.6.3-00021-gd62a2f068f92 #1
[ 85.151396] Hardware name: Freescale MXS (Device Tree)
[ 85.156679] Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on [bluetooth]
(...)
[ 85.191765] uart_handle_cts_change from mxs_auart_irq_handle+0x380/0x3f4
[ 85.198787] mxs_auart_irq_handle from __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x88/0x210
(...)

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c9b943e9924cf1269e44289bc5e60e51b0f5270
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f40fd6ca2cf0bfbc5a5c9e403dfce8ca899ba37
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94b0e65c75f4af888ab2dd6c90f060f762924e86
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54c4ec5f8c471b7c1137a1f769648549c423c026
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