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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-43893" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-08-26T10:10:48.046Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:49:09.415Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43893" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43893.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43893" title: "serial: core: check uartclk for zero to avoid divide by zero" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: core: check uartclk for zero to avoid divide by zero\n\nCalling ioctl TIOCSSERIAL with an invalid baud_base can\nresult in uartclk being zero, which will result in a\ndivide by zero error in uart_get_divisor(). The check for\nuartclk being zero in uart_set_info() needs to be done\nbefore other settings are made as subsequent calls to\nioctl TIOCSSERIAL for the same port would be impacted if\nthe uartclk check was done where uartclk gets set.\n\nOops: divide error: 0000 PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nRIP: 0010:uart_get_divisor (drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:580)\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\nserial8250_get_divisor (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2576\n drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2589)\nserial8250_do_set_termios (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:502\n drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2741)\nserial8250_set_termios (drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2862)\nuart_change_line_settings (./include/linux/spinlock.h:376\n ./include/linux/serial_core.h:608 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:222)\nuart_port_startup (drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:342)\nuart_startup (drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:368)\nuart_set_info (drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:1034)\nuart_set_info_user (drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:1059)\ntty_set_serial (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2637)\ntty_ioctl (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2647 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2791)\n__x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:52 fs/ioctl.c:907\n fs/ioctl.c:893 fs/ioctl.c:893)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52\n (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 (discriminator 1))\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n\nRule: add" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bbd90fca824e6fd61fb20f6dd2b0fa5f8b14bba"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55b2a5d331a6ceb1c4372945fdb77181265ba24f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52b138f1021113e593ee6ad258ce08fe90693a9e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9196e42a3b8eeff1707e6ef769112b4b6096be49"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e13ba3fe5ee070f8a9dab60029d52b1f61da5051"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3ad503876283ac3fcca922a1bf243ef9eb0b0e2"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68dc02f319b9ee54dc23caba742a5c754d1cccc8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6eabce6608d6f3440f4c03aa3d3ef50a47a3d193"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"4.19.320","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.282","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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