# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43061"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-05T15:17:27.079Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:06:10.956Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43061"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43061.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43061"
title: "serial: 8250: Fix TX deadlock when using DMA"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: 8250: Fix TX deadlock when using DMA\n\n`dmaengine_terminate_async` does not guarantee that the\n`__dma_tx_complete` callback will run. The callback is currently the\nonly place where `dma-\u003etx_running` gets cleared. If the transaction is\ncanceled and the callback never runs, then `dma-\u003etx_running` will never\nget cleared and we will never schedule new TX DMA transactions again.\n\nThis change makes it so we clear `dma-\u003etx_running` after we terminate\nthe DMA transaction. This is \"safe\" because `serial8250_tx_dma_flush`\nis holding the UART port lock. The first thing the callback does is also\ngrab the UART port lock, so access to `dma-\u003etx_running` is serialized."
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