Attacker Value
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Exploitability
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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2024-50058

Disclosure Date: October 21, 2024 •
CVE-2024-50058 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

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

serial: protect uart_port_dtr_rts() in uart_shutdown() too

Commit af224ca2df29 (serial: core: Prevent unsafe uart port access, part

  1. added few uport == NULL checks. It added one to uart_shutdown(), so
    the commit assumes, uport can be NULL in there. But right after that
    protection, there is an unprotected “uart_port_dtr_rts(uport, false);”
    call. That is invoked only if HUPCL is set, so I assume that is the
    reason why we do not see lots of these reports.

Or it cannot be NULL at this point at all for some reason :P.

Until the above is investigated, stay on the safe side and move this
dereference to the if too.

I got this inconsistency from Coverity under CID 1585130. Thanks.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
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

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux 2fe399bb8efd
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
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Discovered By
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PoC Author
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Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
Technical Analysis