Vulnerability · Published Feb 23, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-52457serial: 8250: omap: Don't skip resource freeing if pm_runtime_resume_and_get() failed

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250: omap: Don't skip resource freeing if pm_runtime_resume_and_get() failed Returning an error code from .remove() makes the driver core emit the little helpful error message: remove callback returned a non-zero value. This will be ignored. and then remove the device anyhow. So all resources that were not freed are leaked in this case. Skipping serial8250_unregister_port() has the potential to keep enough of the UART around to trigger a use-after-free. So replace the error return (and with it the little helpful error message) by a more useful error message and continue to cleanup.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.76-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52457
Debian:13linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52457
Debian:14linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-102.112UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-102.112USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1057.63USN-6725-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1057.63UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1060.69UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1060.69USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1USN-6819-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1060.69.1USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1060.69.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1055.63UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1055.63USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1USN-6818-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1054.59USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1054.59UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1040.46USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1040.46UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41~22.04.2USN-6818-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1050.53USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1050.53UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1052.58USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1052.58UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1054.59USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1054.59UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-102.112UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-102.112USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1USN-6818-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1048.48USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1048.48UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1021.22UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1021.22USN-6818-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1025.25UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.16.1.0-1035.35USN-6688-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.16.1.0-1035.35UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1024.25UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1024.25USN-6819-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1055.61USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1055.61UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1USN-6819-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1050.53USN-6725-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1050.53UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.56.5.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1USN-6819-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52457

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 2d66412563ef8953e2bac2d98d2d832b3f3f49cd – before b502fb43f7fb55aaf07f6092ab44657595214b93d833cba201adf9237168e19f0d76e4d7aa69f303 – before bc57f3ef8a9eb0180606696f586a6dcfaa175ed0e0db709a58bdeb8966890882261a3f8438c5c9b7 – before 828cd829483f0cda920710997aed79130b0af690e3f0c638f428fd66b5871154b62706772045f91a – before d74173bda29aba58f822175d983d07c8ed335494e3f0c638f428fd66b5871154b62706772045f91a – before 887a558d0298d36297daea039954c39940228d9be3f0c638f428fd66b5871154b62706772045f91a – before 95e4e0031effad9837af557ecbfd4294a4d8aeeee3f0c638f428fd66b5871154b62706772045f91a – before ad90d0358bd3b4554f243a425168fc7cebe7d04e02eed6390dbe61115f3e3f63829c95c611aee67b
Linux Linux 6.1

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