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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: 8250: Fix oops for port->pm on uart_change_pm()\n\nUnloading a hardware specific 8250 driver can produce error \"Unable to\nhandle kernel paging request at virtual address\" about ten seconds after\nunloading the driver. This happens on uart_hangup() calling\nuart_change_pm().\n\nTurns out commit 04e82793f068 (\"serial: 8250: Reinit port->pm on port\nspecific driver unbind\") was only a partial fix. If the hardware specific\ndriver has initialized port->pm function, we need to clear port->pm too.\nJust reinitializing port->ops does not do this. Otherwise serial8250_pm()\nwill call port->pm() instead of serial8250_do_pm()."
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"value": "AV:L - The stale `port->pm` call is reached through local tty operations (open/close/hangup on /dev/ttyS*) and the state is created via local sysfs unbind or module unload; there is no network- or physically-mediated path to the code.\nAC:L - There is no race and no memory-layout dependency — once the hardware-specific 8250 driver is unbound or unloaded, `port->pm` is unconditionally stale and every subsequent `uart_change_pm()` transition dereferences it deterministically (the reporter saw it reliably ~10s later on the automatic hangup).\nPR:L - The dangling call is executed by unprivileged tty operations — an ordinary user with serial-device access (commonly granted via the dialout group on the embedded/industrial systems running 8250_omap/mtk/pxa/exar) opening or closing the port, or simply exiting a process holding it as controlling tty, is enough.\nUI:N - No victim action is needed; the kernel itself invokes `uart_hangup()` → `uart_change_pm()` on process exit and `uart_shutdown()` on close, so the stale pointer fires automatically.\nS:U - The stale function-pointer call and the resulting corruption stay within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - This is a dangling function pointer into freed module text plus MMIO access through a released ioremap mapping — the same class as a use-after-free, which allows an attacker who reclaims the freed region to obtain arbitrary kernel-memory read.\nI:H - An indirect call through a freed code pointer is a direct control-flow hijack primitive, and `omap_8250_pm()`/`exar_pm()` additionally perform `serial_out()` writes through a dangling ioremap cookie, giving an uncontrolled kernel write.\nA:H - The commit documents the concrete result — \"Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address\" / \"Internal error: imprecise external abort\" — a kernel oops that kills the affected task and can panic the system."
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