# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98747"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:47:32.607Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:24:59.721Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98747"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98747.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98747"
title: "serial: core: fix NULL pointer dereference in serial_core_unregister_port()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: core: fix NULL pointer dereference in serial_core_unregister_port()\n\nport-\u003eport_dev is NULL when no port device is installed: it is cleared\non teardown, and never set if registration failed before\nserial_core_port_device_add().  serial_core_unregister_port() passes it\nstraight to serial_core_get_ctrl_dev(), which dereferences it:\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]\n  RIP: serial_core_unregister_port\n  Call Trace:\n   serial8250_unregister_port\n   serial8250_remove\n   unbind_store\n\nReturn early when there is no port device, and read port-\u003eport_dev\nunder port_mutex.\n\nAlso clear port-\u003eport_dev on the serial_core_register_port() error\npath, where the port device has already been removed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"84a9582fd203063cd4d301204971ff2cd8327f1a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"54abbb862366dcaf1f22f1e968358147b7d0547d"},{"version":"84a9582fd203063cd4d301204971ff2cd8327f1a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"499485a67fbacf4d9afbdb43522388c64f853428"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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