Unspecified impact via unsynchronized DMA teardown
Published Sep 3, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026
Use-after-free in the amba-pl011 serial driver in Linux allows attackers to cause an unspecified impact during DMA teardown. dmaengine_terminate_all() can return while a TX callback still accesses its freed buffer, while the RX poll timer reads RX buffers without the port lock. Reachability requires the amba-pl011 UART driver and concurrent teardown activity; the Linux CVE team has not published a concrete security consequence or attacker privilege requirement.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the amba-pl011 serial driver in Linux allows attackers to cause an unspecified impact during DMA teardown. dmaengine_terminate_all() can return while a TX callback still accesses its freed buffer, while the RX poll timer reads RX buffers without the port lock. Reachability requires the amba-pl011 UART driver and concurrent teardown activity; the Linux CVE team has not published a concrete security consequence or attacker privilege requirement.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-80737
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 3, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- Sep 3, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 3, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.6.39
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <440915499231e9db1c361aa45bb702e8fd3b4a32
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <44bd0ecc3444882d08ecfbc2b2418d2f463d3186
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <5974cb66681eac367107b05924744d7e3b49d41c
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <9f6989e477f03a4721d34bb4b09b17accd40283e
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <a38fae9d212e2d3ed5e9ec0ef773f8c0a27fb76e
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <c8c8e895f65fbf71ea6224e27cf8dab91b776e0d
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <f70c9d4fba46463a5b1c7b3ee9ee3b40c90dac03
- Affected versionversion=ead76f329f777c7301e0a5456a0a1c7a081570bd <fdfb46c387241b4eddd36d746793764413285913
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