Security Advisory

CVE-2024-40967

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date July 12, 2024
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory