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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

staging: greybus: uart: fix tty use after free

CVE-2021-47358

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: greybus: uart: fix tty use after free

User space can hold a tty open indefinitely and tty drivers must not release the underlying structures until the last user is gone.

Switch to using the tty-port reference counter to manage the life time of the greybus tty state to avoid use after free after a disconnect.

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