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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38262" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-09T10:42:37.410Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:13.087Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-38262" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38262.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38262" title: "tty: serial: uartlite: register uart driver in init" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: serial: uartlite: register uart driver in init\n\nWhen two instances of uart devices are probing, a concurrency race can\noccur. If one thread calls uart_register_driver function, which first\nallocates and assigns memory to 'uart_state' member of uart_driver\nstructure, the other instance can bypass uart driver registration and\ncall ulite_assign. This calls uart_add_one_port, which expects the uart\ndriver to be fully initialized. This leads to a kernel panic due to a\nnull pointer dereference:\n\n[ 8.143581] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002b8\n[ 8.156982] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n[ 8.156984] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\n[ 8.156986] PGD 0 P4D 0\n...\n[ 8.180668] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x19/0x30\n[ 8.188624] Call Trace:\n[ 8.188629] ? __die_body.cold+0x1a/0x1f\n[ 8.195260] ? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x290\n[ 8.209183] ? __irq_resolve_mapping+0x47/0x80\n[ 8.209187] ? exc_page_fault+0x64/0x140\n[ 8.209190] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n[ 8.209196] ? mutex_lock+0x19/0x30\n[ 8.223116] uart_add_one_port+0x60/0x440\n[ 8.223122] ? proc_tty_register_driver+0x43/0x50\n[ 8.223126] ? tty_register_driver+0x1ca/0x1e0\n[ 8.246250] ulite_probe+0x357/0x4b0 [uartlite]\n\nTo prevent it, move uart driver registration in to init function. This\nwill ensure that uart_driver is always registered when probe function\nis called." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5015eed450005bab6e5cb6810f7a62eab0434fc4"},{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c905fdbba68a6d73d39a6b7de9b9f0d6c46df87"},{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6db06aaea07bb7c8e33a425cf7b98bf29ee6056e"},{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e958d10dd0ce5ae674cce460db5c9ca3f25243b"},{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"685d29f2c5057b32c7b1b46f2a7d303b926c8f72"},{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5e4229d94792b40e750f30c92bcf7a3107c72ef"},{"version":"238b8721a554a33a451a3f13bdb5be8fe5cfc927","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bd697b5fc39fd24e2aa418c7b7d14469f550a93"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.20"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.15.187","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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