CVE-2024-40967: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.15.162 (fixed in 5.15.162); from 5.16, before 6.1.96 (fixed in 6.1.96); from 6.2, before 6.6.36 (fixed in 6.6.36); from 6.7, before 6.9.7 (fixed in 6.9.7)

Published 2024-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.