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CVE-2024-40967

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-07-12 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty By waiting at most 1 second for USR2_TXDC to be set, we avoid a potential deadlock. In case of the timeout, there is not much we can do, so we simply ignore the transmitter state and optimistically try to continue.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-667

References