cve-2024-26998
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-01 05:28
Modified
2024-11-05 09:19
Severity ?
Summary
serial: core: Clearing the circular buffer before NULLifying it
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae7104d54342433a3a73975f6569beefdd86350
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf7ea2eeb745213dc2a04103e426b960e807940
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb1118905e875c111d7ccef9aee86ac5e4e7f985
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae7104d54342433a3a73975f6569beefdd86350
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf7ea2eeb745213dc2a04103e426b960e807940
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb1118905e875c111d7ccef9aee86ac5e4e7f985
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 6.8
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