CVE-2024-40967

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.

Weakness

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

Affected Software

Extended Description

Locking is a type of synchronization behavior that ensures that multiple independently-operating processes or threads do not interfere with each other when accessing the same resource. All processes/threads are expected to follow the same steps for locking. If these steps are not followed precisely - or if no locking is done at all - then another process/thread could modify the shared resource in a way that is not visible or predictable to the original process. This can lead to data or memory corruption, denial of service, etc.

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/25.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/26.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/27.html

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53b2c95547427c358f45515a9f144efee95e3701
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f2b9ab6d0b26f16cd38dd9fd91d51899635f7c7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f9e70c68b7ace0141fe3bc94bf7b61296b71916
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/982ae3376c4c91590d38dc8a676c10f7df048a44
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e533e4c62e9993e62e947ae9bbec34e4c7ae81c2