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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-74653",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-08-15T05:44:03.923Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-08-22T15:32:28.521Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:46:06.161Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: 8250_of: clear stuck empty-FIFO RX-timeout on LPC32xx\n\nThe NXP LPC32xx UART (PORT_LPC3220) can latch an RX character-timeout\ninterrupt while the RX FIFO is empty: IIR reports UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT\n(0x0c) but LSR.DR is clear. A character timeout is only cleared by\nreading RHR, but serial8250_rx_chars() reads RHR only when LSR.DR is\nset, so nothing ever clears the condition. The interrupt is\nlevel-triggered and re-fires immediately, so on a single-core ARM926\nthe resulting interrupt storm livelocks the CPU.\n\nIt is reproducible when userspace repeatedly opens the front-panel port\n(ttyS1): serial8250_do_set_termios() re-enables interrupts on unlock and\nthe handler then spins forever with iir=0xcc lsr=0x60 ier=0x05, tripping\nthe soft-lockup detector in serial8250_handle_irq_locked().\n\nLPC32xx has no dedicated 8250 glue driver, it's driven by the generic\n8250_of. Add a hardware specific handle_irq for PORT_LPC3220, wired up\nin of_platform_serial_setup() the same way fsl8250_handle_irq is\ninstalled. The handler follows dw8250_handle_irq(): on an RX timeout\nwith an empty FIFO (LSR.DR and LSR.BI clear) it does one throwaway RHR\nread to clear the condition, then calls serial8250_handle_irq_locked().\nNo real received data is ever discarded, and it is a no-op on healthy\nUARTs which never report a timeout with DR clear.\n\nThis is the same class of bug already worked around in other 8250 drivers;\nsee commit 424d79183af0 (\"serial: 8250_dw: Avoid \"too much work\" from bogus rx timeout interrupt\")\nwhich reports the identical iir=0xcc/lsr=0x60. See also\nUART_RX_TIMEOUT_QUIRK in 8250_omap, and the note in 8250_bcm7271."
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