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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-72238

CVE-2026-72238

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Open
TLP:CLEAR

x86/boot: Validate console=uart8250 baud rate to fix early boot hang

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/boot: Validate console=uart8250 baud rate to fix early boot hang When the baud rate is empty, 0, invalid, or overflows to 0 when stored as an int, the system will hang during early boot because of a division by zero in early_serial_init(). Fall back to DEFAULT_BAUD when the resulting baud rate is 0 to prevent an early system hang.

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Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 15, 2026
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