CVE-2024-40967 (GCVE-0-2024-40967)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-12 12:32
Modified
2026-01-05 10:36
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 9ec1882df244c4ee1baa692676fef5e8b0f5487d
Version: 9ec1882df244c4ee1baa692676fef5e8b0f5487d
Version: 9ec1882df244c4ee1baa692676fef5e8b0f5487d
Version: 9ec1882df244c4ee1baa692676fef5e8b0f5487d
Version: 9ec1882df244c4ee1baa692676fef5e8b0f5487d
Version: c096552004244868391b29f319ea8889d55abe19
Version: 86236252d2449313bdbac790023cbc957bf6e426
Version: 34d4dda865d8174f4a437f313c457c42a8fa9535
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