# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90337"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:08:49.687Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:51:07.617Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90337"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90337.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90337"
title: "serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered\n\nserial_core_add_one_port() allocates uport-\u003etty_groups after\nuart_configure_port(), which may register the console. If the allocation\nfails, the driver unwinds the port while its console remains registered.\nThe earlier uport-\u003ename allocation has a related failure path that leaves\nstate-\u003euart_port linked to a port being freed.\n\nFailslab reproduced a NULL dereference in PL011 console output and a KASAN\nuse-after-free in i.MX console output after failed binds.\n\nAllocate the name and tty_groups before linking the port and configuring\nit. Reserve space for the optional driver attribute group because\nconfig_port() may populate uport-\u003eattr_group during configuration."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2ddbfd826836cba1b7a25ee4eb512f7d752b703"},{"version":"266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c7c75bfa7b84d6999de2100ce9c09e3779249a0"},{"version":"266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9260a92ce90e6a95ce2ffdf1441c5216bf3f9552"},{"version":"266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2aec15f78b2e6ccd9b94216a901248511355982"},{"version":"266dcff03eed0050b6af11aaf2a61ab837d7ba3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a0e4fbce5d9c1bc179a35a2fd9ed142664299e3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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